Combination 199

Sanzo Wada · Ochre Red · Light Brownish Olive · Deep Lyons Blue

Combination 199 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 199 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Ochre Red #AB544D, Light Brownish Olive #806E4B, Deep Lyons Blue #1C4286. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.96:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 1.4). 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

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#AB544D Ochre Red	171 84 77	(0.5509 0.1155 26.2)	24/73/63/17
#806E4B Light Brownish Olive	128 110 75	(0.5464 0.0550 83.5)	41/43/68/32
#1C4286 Deep Lyons Blue	28 66 134	(0.3926 0.1222 261.0)	98/80/15/3