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Combination 103

Sanzo Wada · Cinnamon Rufous · Dusky Madder Violet

Combination 103 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 103 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cinnamon Rufous #C27544, Dusky Madder Violet #4E1D4C. Its most readable text pair is #C27544 on #4E1D4C (WCAG 3.69:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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
#4E1D4C Dusky Madder Violet78 29 76(0.3241 0.0989 329.2)72/98/33/37

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

Best text pair

AA large · 3.69:1
The quick brown fox#C27544 on #4E1D4C · WCAG 3.69:1 · APCA Lc -33.3

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 33.7
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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