Combination 185

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Etruscan Red · Pale Lemon Yellow

Combination 185 is a warm color combination of 3 colors, combination 185 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Etruscan Red #C55347, Pale Lemon Yellow #FFEFAE. Its most readable text pair is #C55347 on #FFEFAE (WCAG 3.87:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Desert warm

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
#B59392 Light Brown Drab	181 147 146	(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)	27/42/34/11
#C55347 Etruscan Red	197 83 71	(0.5870 0.1485 28.5)	17/77/70/6
#FFEFAE Pale Lemon Yellow	255 239 174	(0.9498 0.0841 95.9)	0/5/41/0