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Combination 177

Sanzo Wada · Pale Burnt Lake · Buffy Citrine · Grayish Lavender - A

Combination 177 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 177 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pale Burnt Lake #802626, Buffy Citrine #96874D, Grayish Lavender - A #B5B1D8. Its most readable text pair is #802626 on #B5B1D8 (WCAG 4.61:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

colorful

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
#96874D Buffy Citrine150 135 77(0.6236 0.0798 95.3)38/36/74/20
#B5B1D8 Grayish Lavender - A181 177 216(0.7767 0.0552 289.7)33/31/1/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.9).

Best text pair

AA · 4.61:1
The quick brown fox#802626 on #B5B1D8 · WCAG 4.61:1 · APCA Lc 48.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 23.4
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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