Combination 122

Sanzo Wada · Carmine · Cream Yellow · Benzol Green

Combination 122 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 122 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine #CC1236, Cream Yellow #FDBF68, Benzol Green #00978D. Its most readable text pair is #CC1236 on #FDBF68 (WCAG 3.46:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

vivid colorful

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#CC1236 Carmine	204 18 54	(0.5397 0.2096 20.4)	12/100/73/3
#FDBF68 Cream Yellow	253 191 104	(0.8443 0.1262 73.9)	0/31/65/0
#00978D Benzol Green	0 151 141	(0.6089 0.1065 186.6)	80/17/50/2