Combination 197

Sanzo Wada · Eosine Pink · Dark Soft Violet · Neutral Gray

Combination 197 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 197 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Eosine Pink #F37F94, Dark Soft Violet #66629C, Neutral Gray #B6BFC1. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.96:1). 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
#F37F94 Eosine Pink	243 127 148	(0.7319 0.1429 9.8)	0/63/24/0
#66629C Dark Soft Violet	102 98 156	(0.5249 0.0902 286.0)	69/64/12/1
#B6BFC1 Neutral Gray	182 191 193	(0.7982 0.0104 212.5)	32/20/22/2