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Combination 223

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Ochraceous Salmon · Turquoise Green

Combination 223 is a muted color combination of 3 colors, combination 223 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Ochraceous Salmon #D8A37B, Turquoise Green #B5DECC. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.89:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#B59392 Light Brown Drab181 147 146(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)27/42/34/11
#D8A37B Ochraceous Salmon216 163 123(0.7557 0.0829 58.1)14/40/54/3
#B5DECC Turquoise Green181 222 204(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)33/0/26/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.2).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.89:1
The quick brown fox#B59392 on #B5DECC · WCAG 1.89:1 · APCA Lc 29

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 9
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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