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Combination 201

Sanzo Wada · Grenadine Pink · Olive · Cobalt Green

Combination 201 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 201 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Grenadine Pink #F48067, Olive #837E31, Cobalt Green #96D1AA. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.4:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Spring

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#F48067 Grenadine Pink244 128 103(0.7251 0.1475 33.4)0/62/57/0
#837E31 Olive131 126 49(0.5816 0.0986 105.6)47/35/91/22
#96D1AA Cobalt Green150 209 170(0.8096 0.0820 155.2)46/0/43/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.3).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.4:1
The quick brown fox#837E31 on #96D1AA · WCAG 2.4:1 · APCA Lc 34.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 11.4
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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