Combination 222

Sanzo Wada · Yellow Ocher · Yellow Orange · Orange Rufous

Combination 222 is a vivid, warm color combination of 3 colors, combination 222 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Yellow Ocher #E2B540, Yellow Orange #F99D1B, Orange Rufous #C16B27. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.02:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 2.9). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

vivid warm

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
#E2B540 Yellow Ocher	226 181 64	(0.7933 0.1398 87.1)	12/29/83/2
#F99D1B Yellow Orange	249 157 27	(0.7720 0.1646 67.2)	0/46/91/0
#C16B27 Orange Rufous	193 107 39	(0.6146 0.1346 54.4)	19/63/93/8