Combination 227

Sanzo Wada · Hermosa Pink · Light Glaucous Blue · Cerulian Blue

Combination 227 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 227 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Hermosa Pink #F9C1CE, Light Glaucous Blue #A5C8D1, Cerulian Blue #0093A5. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.37:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 3.6). 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

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#F9C1CE Hermosa Pink	249 193 206	(0.8645 0.0661 3.1)	0/34/9/0
#A5C8D1 Light Glaucous Blue	165 200 209	(0.8102 0.0394 215.1)	39/11/17/0
#0093A5 Cerulian Blue	0 147 165	(0.6076 0.1051 209.9)	79/21/32/4