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Combination 22

Sanzo Wada · Yellow · Deep Lyons Blue

Combination 22 is a vivid color combination of 2 colors, combination 22 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Yellow #FFF200, Deep Lyons Blue #1C4286. Its most readable text pair is #FFF200 on #1C4286 (WCAG 8.26:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

vivid

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#FFF200 Yellow255 242 0(0.9412 0.2004 105.7)6/0/89/0
#1C4286 Deep Lyons Blue28 66 134(0.3926 0.1222 261.0)98/80/15/3

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 2).

Best text pair

AAA · 8.26:1
The quick brown fox#FFF200 on #1C4286 · WCAG 8.26:1 · APCA Lc -84.8

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 60.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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