Combination 225

Sanzo Wada · Carmine · Dusky Green · Dark Slate Purple

Combination 225 is a colorful color combination of 3 colors, combination 225 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine #CC1236, Dusky Green #004F46, Dark Slate Purple #704357. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.68:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 5.9). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Christmas colorful

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
#CC1236 Carmine	204 18 54	(0.5397 0.2096 20.4)	12/100/73/3
#004F46 Dusky Green	0 79 70	(0.3836 0.0687 181.9)	89/41/65/45
#704357 Dark Slate Purple	112 67 87	(0.4423 0.0679 352.1)	48/73/40/36