Combination 218

Sanzo Wada · Helvetia Blue · Grayish Lavender - A · Deep Violet / Plumbeous

Combination 218 is a muted, cool color combination of 3 colors, combination 218 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Helvetia Blue #005B8D, Grayish Lavender - A #B5B1D8, Deep Violet / Plumbeous #70727C. Its most readable text pair is #005B8D on #B5B1D8 (WCAG 3.56:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Winter muted cool

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
#005B8D Helvetia Blue	0 91 141	(0.4524 0.1090 242.8)	93/60/22/6
#B5B1D8 Grayish Lavender - A	181 177 216	(0.7767 0.0552 289.7)	33/31/1/0
#70727C Deep Violet / Plumbeous	112 114 124	(0.5537 0.0156 276.9)	56/46/37/22