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Combination 10

Sanzo Wada · Cinnamon Rufous · Dark Citrine

Combination 10 is a warm, earthy color combination of 2 colors, combination 10 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cinnamon Rufous #C27544, Dark Citrine #8B835B. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.08:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 5.3). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

warmearthy

Colors converted from the book's printed CMYK by Matt DesLauriers, after Dain M. Blodorn Kim (MIT).

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#C27544 Cinnamon Rufous194 117 68(0.6363 0.1163 51.7)20/59/77/8
#8B835B Dark Citrine139 131 91(0.6068 0.0572 98.2)43/36/65/22

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.08:1
The quick brown fox#C27544 on #8B835B · WCAG 1.08:1 · APCA Lc 0

Color blindness

check · closest ΔE00 5.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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