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Combination 235

Sanzo Wada · Ivory Buff · Yellow Orange · Grayish Lavender - B

Combination 235 is a pastel, warm, monochrome color combination of 3 colors, combination 235 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Ivory Buff #EBD3A2, Yellow Orange #F99D1B, Grayish Lavender - B #C0A9B3. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.5:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastelwarmmonochrome

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#EBD3A2 Ivory Buff235 211 162(0.8749 0.0692 84.8)9/17/43/1
#F99D1B Yellow Orange249 157 27(0.7720 0.1646 67.2)0/46/91/0
#C0A9B3 Grayish Lavender - B192 169 179(0.7577 0.0299 349.7)26/35/21/3

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

Best text pair

below AA · 1.5:1
The quick brown fox#EBD3A2 on #C0A9B3 · WCAG 1.5:1 · APCA Lc -21.5

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 11.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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