Combination 183

Sanzo Wada · Deep Violet / Plumbeous · Veronia Purple · Red Violet

Combination 183 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 183 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Deep Violet / Plumbeous #70727C, Veronia Purple #8C4C62, Red Violet #59256A. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.31:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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
#70727C Deep Violet / Plumbeous	112 114 124	(0.5537 0.0156 276.9)	56/46/37/22
#8C4C62 Veronia Purple	140 76 98	(0.4997 0.0900 358.9)	37/73/37/26
#59256A Red Violet	89 37 106	(0.3707 0.1235 316.9)	77/99/22/12