Combination 159

Sanzo Wada · Khaki · Calamine BLue · Grayish Lavender - A

Combination 159 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 159 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Khaki #BC892B, Calamine BLue #78CDD0, Grayish Lavender - A #B5B1D8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.69:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 4.4). 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
#BC892B Khaki	188 137 43	(0.6641 0.1227 78.3)	22/44/91/12
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue	120 205 208	(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)	54/0/23/0
#B5B1D8 Grayish Lavender - A	181 177 216	(0.7767 0.0552 289.7)	33/31/1/0