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Combination 20

Sanzo Wada · Calamine BLue · Laelia Pink

Combination 20 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 20 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Calamine BLue #78CDD0, Laelia Pink #CA92A8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.4:1). 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
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue120 205 208(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)54/0/23/0
#CA92A8 Laelia Pink202 146 168(0.7204 0.0732 353.8)21/50/19/2

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.4:1
The quick brown fox#78CDD0 on #CA92A8 · WCAG 1.4:1 · APCA Lc -15.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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