Combination 176

Sanzo Wada · Hermosa Pink · Seashell Pink · Calamine BLue

Combination 176 is a pastel, muted, light color combination of 3 colors, combination 176 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Hermosa Pink #F9C1CE, Seashell Pink #FDD4BD, Calamine BLue #78CDD0. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.34:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 2.9). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Easter pastel muted light

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
#F9C1CE Hermosa Pink	249 193 206	(0.8645 0.0661 3.1)	0/34/9/0
#FDD4BD Seashell Pink	253 212 189	(0.8990 0.0556 51.0)	0/23/26/0
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue	120 205 208	(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)	54/0/23/0