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Combination 200

Sanzo Wada · Carmine Red · Olive Buff · Chromium Green

Combination 200 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 200 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine Red #A62C37, Olive Buff #C1C494, Chromium Green #719470. Its most readable text pair is #A62C37 on #C1C494 (WCAG 3.82:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#A62C37 Carmine Red166 44 55(0.4864 0.1576 20.6)24/93/71/18
#C1C494 Olive Buff193 196 148(0.8059 0.0644 110.7)29/15/49/2
#719470 Chromium Green113 148 112(0.6301 0.0660 144.1)60/26/62/9

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

Best text pair

AA large · 3.82:1
The quick brown fox#A62C37 on #C1C494 · WCAG 3.82:1 · APCA Lc 46.8

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 15.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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