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Combination 224

Sanzo Wada · Spinel Red · Dark Medici Blue · Taupe Brown

Combination 224 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 224 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Spinel Red #F27291, Dark Medici Blue #547076, Taupe Brown #7A4456. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.72:1). 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
#F27291 Spinel Red242 114 145(0.7111 0.1595 6.8)0/68/22/0
#547076 Dark Medici Blue84 112 118(0.5254 0.0339 212.3)66/40/42/24
#7A4456 Taupe Brown122 68 86(0.4572 0.0775 359.3)41/73/41/35

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.8).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.72:1
The quick brown fox#F27291 on #7A4456 · WCAG 2.72:1 · APCA Lc -31.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.7
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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