Combination 182

Sanzo Wada · Raw Sienna · Vandyke Brown · Deep Indigo

Combination 182 is a dark, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 182 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Raw Sienna #BB7125, Vandyke Brown #4B3317, Deep Indigo #051230. Its most readable text pair is #BB7125 on #051230 (WCAG 4.84:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3 off (FOGRA39).

dark colorful

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
#BB7125 Raw Sienna	187 113 37	(0.6170 0.1272 61.4)	21/59/94/11
#4B3317 Vandyke Brown	75 51 23	(0.3426 0.0543 68.4)	46/64/85/67
#051230 Deep Indigo	5 18 48	(0.1919 0.0631 263.0)	100/93/48/65 ⚠ ΔE 3.0