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Combination 129

Sanzo Wada · Apricot Yellow · Khaki · Salvia Blue

Combination 129 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 129 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Apricot Yellow #FFDD00, Khaki #BC892B, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.31:1). 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
#FFDD00 Apricot Yellow255 221 0(0.8987 0.1857 97.9)1/10/92/0
#BC892B Khaki188 137 43(0.6641 0.1227 78.3)22/44/91/12
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue151 172 200(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)45/27/13/1

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

Best text pair

below AA · 2.31:1
The quick brown fox#FFDD00 on #BC892B · WCAG 2.31:1 · APCA Lc -42.3

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 20.4
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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