Combination 139

Sanzo Wada · Salvia Blue · Deep Indigo · Neutral Gray

Combination 139 is a muted, cool, monochrome color combination of 3 colors, combination 139 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Salvia Blue #97ACC8, Deep Indigo #051230, Neutral Gray #B6BFC1. Its most readable text pair is #051230 on #B6BFC1 (WCAG 9.87:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3 off (FOGRA39).

Winter muted cool monochrome

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
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue	151 172 200	(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)	45/27/13/1
#051230 Deep Indigo	5 18 48	(0.1919 0.0631 263.0)	100/93/48/65 ⚠ ΔE 3.0
#B6BFC1 Neutral Gray	182 191 193	(0.7982 0.0104 212.5)	32/20/22/2