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Combination 163

Sanzo Wada · Apricot Yellow · Turquoise Green · Antwarp Blue

Combination 163 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 163 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Apricot Yellow #FFDD00, Turquoise Green #B5DECC, Antwarp Blue #007190. Its most readable text pair is #FFDD00 on #007190 (WCAG 4.14:1, AA large). 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
#FFDD00 Apricot Yellow255 221 0(0.8987 0.1857 97.9)1/10/92/0
#B5DECC Turquoise Green181 222 204(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)33/0/26/0
#007190 Antwarp Blue0 113 144(0.5105 0.0970 225.3)85/40/29/12

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.2).

Best text pair

AA large · 4.14:1
The quick brown fox#FFDD00 on #007190 · WCAG 4.14:1 · APCA Lc -61.6

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 25.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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