Combination 228 is a warm color combination of 3 colors, combination 228 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine Red #A62C37, Pale Lemon Yellow #FFEFAE, Neutral Gray #B6BFC1. Its most readable text pair is #A62C37 on #FFEFAE (WCAG 6:1, AA). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#A62C37 on #FFEFAE · WCAG 6:1 · APCA Lc 73.1
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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