Combination 172

Sanzo Wada · Cinnamon Rufous · Antwarp Blue · Red Violet

Combination 172 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 172 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cinnamon Rufous #C27544, Antwarp Blue #007190, Red Violet #59256A. Its most readable text pair is #C27544 on #59256A (WCAG 3.12:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Sunset colorful

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#C27544 Cinnamon Rufous	194 117 68	(0.6363 0.1163 51.7)	20/59/77/8
#007190 Antwarp Blue	0 113 144	(0.5105 0.0970 225.3)	85/40/29/12
#59256A Red Violet	89 37 106	(0.3707 0.1235 316.9)	77/99/22/12