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Combination 16

Sanzo Wada · Vandyke Red · Pale King's Blue

Combination 16 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 16 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Vandyke Red #82241F, Pale King'S Blue #A7D4E4. Its most readable text pair is #82241F on #A7D4E4 (WCAG 5.93:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#82241F Vandyke Red130 36 31(0.4091 0.1294 27.5)30/94/86/38
#A7D4E4 Pale King'S Blue167 212 228(0.8433 0.0520 221.6)38/5/10/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.6).

Best text pair

AA · 5.93:1
The quick brown fox#82241F on #A7D4E4 · WCAG 5.93:1 · APCA Lc 61.8

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 53.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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