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Combination 165

Sanzo Wada · Cameo Pink · Spinel Red · Vistoris Lake

Combination 165 is a warm, monochrome color combination of 3 colors, combination 165 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cameo Pink #E0B3B6, Spinel Red #F27291, Vistoris Lake #6D4145. Its most readable text pair is #E0B3B6 on #6D4145 (WCAG 4.53:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Valentine's Daywarmmonochrome

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#E0B3B6 Cameo Pink224 179 182(0.8078 0.0524 13.8)11/36/22/1
#F27291 Spinel Red242 114 145(0.7111 0.1595 6.8)0/68/22/0
#6D4145 Vistoris Lake109 65 69(0.4286 0.0615 14.1)38/69/50/48

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.8).

Best text pair

AA · 4.53:1
The quick brown fox#E0B3B6 on #6D4145 · WCAG 4.53:1 · APCA Lc -53.1

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 8.9
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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