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Combination 221

Sanzo Wada · Carmine Red · Neutral Gray · Black

Combination 221 is a muted color combination of 3 colors, combination 221 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine Red #A62C37, Neutral Gray #B6BFC1, Black #111314. Its most readable text pair is #B6BFC1 on #111314 (WCAG 9.95:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Wintermuted

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#A62C37 Carmine Red166 44 55(0.4864 0.1576 20.6)24/93/71/18
#B6BFC1 Neutral Gray182 191 193(0.7982 0.0104 212.5)32/20/22/2
#111314 Black17 19 20(0.1849 0.0038 229.0)79/71/61/87

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1).

Best text pair

AAA · 9.95:1
The quick brown fox#B6BFC1 on #111314 · WCAG 9.95:1 · APCA Lc -66.4

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 20.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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