Combination 118 is a warm, earthy, monochrome color combination of 2 colors, combination 118 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Yellow Ocher #E2B540, Vandyke Brown #4B3317. Its most readable text pair is #E2B540 on #4B3317 (WCAG 6.12:1, AA). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#E2B540 on #4B3317 · WCAG 6.12:1 · APCA Lc -58.5
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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