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Combination 154

Sanzo Wada · Carmine · Yellow · Blue

Combination 154 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 154 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine #CC1236, Yellow #FFF200, Blue #006EB8. Its most readable text pair is #CC1236 on #FFF200 (WCAG 4.84:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#CC1236 Carmine204 18 54(0.5397 0.2096 20.4)12/100/73/3
#FFF200 Yellow255 242 0(0.9412 0.2004 105.7)6/0/89/0
#006EB8 Blue0 110 184(0.5261 0.1426 248.3)87/51/0/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 2).

Best text pair

AA · 4.84:1
The quick brown fox#CC1236 on #FFF200 · WCAG 4.84:1 · APCA Lc 65.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 36.4
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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