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Combination 156

Sanzo Wada · Olive Ocher · Cobalt Green · Violet

Combination 156 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 156 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Olive Ocher #D6B43E, Cobalt Green #96D1AA, Violet #4F4086. Its most readable text pair is #96D1AA on #4F4086 (WCAG 4.98:1, AA). 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
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#D6B43E Olive Ocher214 180 62(0.7792 0.1376 92.5)17/26/84/4
#96D1AA Cobalt Green150 209 170(0.8096 0.0820 155.2)46/0/43/0
#4F4086 Violet79 64 134(0.4230 0.1127 290.6)82/83/12/2

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.3).

Best text pair

AA · 4.98:1
The quick brown fox#96D1AA on #4F4086 · WCAG 4.98:1 · APCA Lc -57.1

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 17.8
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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