Combination 142

Sanzo Wada · Hydrangea Red · Sulphine Yellow · Salvia Blue

Combination 142 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 142 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Hydrangea Red #A94151, Sulphine Yellow #C19F2C, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.54:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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
#A94151 Hydrangea Red	169 65 81	(0.5213 0.1369 13.9)	24/83/52/17
#C19F2C Sulphine Yellow	193 159 44	(0.7140 0.1322 91.5)	23/32/91/9
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue	151 172 200	(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)	45/27/13/1