Combination 17 is a vivid color combination of 2 colors, combination 17 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Eugenia Red | B #DA525D, Sea Green #00B49B. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.5:1). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#DA525D on #00B49B · WCAG 1.5:1 · APCA Lc 13.3
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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