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Combination 191

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Yellow Ocher · Blue

Combination 191 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 191 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Yellow Ocher #E2B540, Blue #006EB8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.78:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

colorful

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#B59392 Light Brown Drab181 147 146(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)27/42/34/11
#E2B540 Yellow Ocher226 181 64(0.7933 0.1398 87.1)12/29/83/2
#006EB8 Blue0 110 184(0.5261 0.1426 248.3)87/51/0/0

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

Best text pair

below AA · 2.78:1
The quick brown fox#E2B540 on #006EB8 · WCAG 2.78:1 · APCA Lc -39.3

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 12.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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