Combination 237

Sanzo Wada · Carmine Red · Madder Brown · Salvia Blue

Combination 237 is a color combination of 3 colors, combination 237 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Carmine Red #A62C37, Madder Brown #762C19, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. Its most readable text pair is #762C19 on #97ACC8 (WCAG 4.22:1, AA large). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7.8). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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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
#A62C37 Carmine Red	166 44 55	(0.4864 0.1576 20.6)	24/93/71/18
#762C19 Madder Brown	118 44 25	(0.3973 0.1087 35.4)	32/86/91/45
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue	151 172 200	(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)	45/27/13/1