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Combination 11

Sanzo Wada · Ivory Buff · Mineral Gray

Combination 11 is a pastel, muted color combination of 2 colors, combination 11 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Ivory Buff #EBD3A2, Mineral Gray #A2B0AD. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.54:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastelmuted

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#EBD3A2 Ivory Buff235 211 162(0.8749 0.0692 84.8)9/17/43/1
#A2B0AD Mineral Gray162 176 173(0.7453 0.0162 181.6)40/23/30/4

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.6).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.54:1
The quick brown fox#EBD3A2 on #A2B0AD · WCAG 1.54:1 · APCA Lc -22.6

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 18.7
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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