Combination 211

Sanzo Wada · Apricot Orange · Olive Yellow · Deep Indigo

Combination 211 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 211 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Apricot Orange #F68C50, Olive Yellow #A6A159, Deep Indigo #051230. Its most readable text pair is #F68C50 on #051230 (WCAG 7.74:1, AAA). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 1.4). Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3 off (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
#F68C50 Apricot Orange	246 140 80	(0.7434 0.1489 48.5)	0/55/71/0
#A6A159 Olive Yellow	166 161 89	(0.6971 0.0942 105.1)	37/26/73/9
#051230 Deep Indigo	5 18 48	(0.1919 0.0631 263.0)	100/93/48/65 ⚠ ΔE 3.0