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Combination 136

Sanzo Wada · Scarlet · Dull Viridian Green · Red Violet

Combination 136 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 136 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Scarlet #CB2F43, Dull Viridian Green #009465, Red Violet #59256A. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.86:1). 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
#CB2F43 Scarlet203 47 67(0.5567 0.1909 19.6)14/93/67/4
#009465 Dull Viridian Green0 148 101(0.5892 0.1290 162.1)82/16/73/2
#59256A Red Violet89 37 106(0.3707 0.1235 316.9)77/99/22/12

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.4).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.86:1
The quick brown fox#009465 on #59256A · WCAG 2.86:1 · APCA Lc -27.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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