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Combination 209

Sanzo Wada · Ivory Buff · Yellow Orange · Salvia Blue

Combination 209 is a pastel, colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 209 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Ivory Buff #EBD3A2, Yellow Orange #F99D1B, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.59:1). 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
#EBD3A2 Ivory Buff235 211 162(0.8749 0.0692 84.8)9/17/43/1
#F99D1B Yellow Orange249 157 27(0.7720 0.1646 67.2)0/46/91/0
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue151 172 200(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)45/27/13/1

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.8).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.59:1
The quick brown fox#EBD3A2 on #97ACC8 · WCAG 1.59:1 · APCA Lc -24.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 15.4
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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