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Combination 188

Sanzo Wada · Rainette Green · Salvia Blue · Cobalt Green

Combination 188 is a muted color combination of 3 colors, combination 188 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Rainette Green #8FA071, Salvia Blue #97ACC8, Cobalt Green #96D1AA. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.61:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#8FA071 Rainette Green143 160 113(0.6801 0.0687 124.3)48/24/62/7
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue151 172 200(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)45/27/13/1
#96D1AA Cobalt Green150 209 170(0.8096 0.0820 155.2)46/0/43/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.3).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.61:1
The quick brown fox#8FA071 on #96D1AA · WCAG 1.61:1 · APCA Lc 20.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.1
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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