Combination 178

Sanzo Wada · Ivory Buff · Light Glaucous Blue · Green Blue

Combination 178 is a muted color combination of 3 colors, combination 178 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Ivory Buff #EBD3A2, Light Glaucous Blue #A5C8D1, Green Blue #099197. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.61:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Vintage muted

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
#EBD3A2 Ivory Buff	235 211 162	(0.8749 0.0692 84.8)	9/17/43/1
#A5C8D1 Light Glaucous Blue	165 200 209	(0.8102 0.0394 215.1)	39/11/17/0
#099197 Green Blue	9 145 151	(0.5975 0.1002 200.1)	79/21/40/5