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Combination 157

Sanzo Wada · Pansy Purple · Olive Ocher · Olympic Blue

Combination 157 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 157 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pansy Purple #7D133A, Olive Ocher #D6B43E, Olympic Blue #5A82B3. Its most readable text pair is #7D133A on #D6B43E (WCAG 5.16:1, 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
#7D133A Pansy Purple125 19 58(0.3900 0.1409 5.5)31/99/48/41
#D6B43E Olive Ocher214 180 62(0.7792 0.1376 92.5)17/26/84/4
#5A82B3 Olympic Blue90 130 179(0.5976 0.0877 254.1)69/43/13/1

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.4).

Best text pair

AA · 5.16:1
The quick brown fox#7D133A on #D6B43E · WCAG 5.16:1 · APCA Lc 51.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 31.9
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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