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Combination 15

Sanzo Wada · Benzol Green · Grayish Lavender - A

Combination 15 is a cool color combination of 2 colors, combination 15 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Benzol Green #00978D, Grayish Lavender - A #B5B1D8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.76:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

cool

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#00978D Benzol Green0 151 141(0.6089 0.1065 186.6)80/17/50/2
#B5B1D8 Grayish Lavender - A181 177 216(0.7767 0.0552 289.7)33/31/1/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.9).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.76:1
The quick brown fox#00978D on #B5B1D8 · WCAG 1.76:1 · APCA Lc 21.1

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 17.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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