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Combination 179

Sanzo Wada · Red Orange · Golden Yellow · Deep Lyons Blue

Combination 179 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 179 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Red Orange #DD4027, Golden Yellow #F3A257, Deep Lyons Blue #1C4286. Its most readable text pair is #F3A257 on #1C4286 (WCAG 4.66:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#DD4027 Red Orange221 64 39(0.5996 0.1977 31.8)5/86/91/0
#F3A257 Golden Yellow243 162 87(0.7782 0.1323 61.6)1/44/71/0
#1C4286 Deep Lyons Blue28 66 134(0.3926 0.1222 261.0)98/80/15/3

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.5).

Best text pair

AA · 4.66:1
The quick brown fox#F3A257 on #1C4286 · WCAG 4.66:1 · APCA Lc -50.4

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 16.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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