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Combination 171

Sanzo Wada · Pale Burnt Lake · Yellow Orange · Glaucous Green

Combination 171 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 171 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pale Burnt Lake #802626, Yellow Orange #F99D1B, Glaucous Green #B4CDC2. Its most readable text pair is #802626 on #B4CDC2 (WCAG 5.6:1, 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
#802626 Pale Burnt Lake128 38 38(0.4089 0.1241 24.5)30/92/78/39
#F99D1B Yellow Orange249 157 27(0.7720 0.1646 67.2)0/46/91/0
#B4CDC2 Glaucous Green180 205 194(0.8265 0.0310 167.3)34/10/27/0

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

Best text pair

AA · 5.6:1
The quick brown fox#802626 on #B4CDC2 · WCAG 5.6:1 · APCA Lc 58.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 26.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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