Combination 173

Sanzo Wada · Lemon Yellow · Madder Brown · Turquoise Green

Combination 173 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 173 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Lemon Yellow #F8ED43, Madder Brown #762C19, Turquoise Green #B5DECC. Its most readable text pair is #F8ED43 on #762C19 (WCAG 8.01:1, AAA). 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

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#F8ED43 Lemon Yellow	248 237 67	(0.9270 0.1785 105.6)	8/1/80/0
#762C19 Madder Brown	118 44 25	(0.3973 0.1087 35.4)	32/86/91/45
#B5DECC Turquoise Green	181 222 204	(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)	33/0/26/0