Combination 239

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Pyrite Yellow · Glaucous Green

Combination 239 is a muted color combination of 3 colors, combination 239 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Pyrite Yellow #CAB356, Glaucous Green #B4CDC2. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.65:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted

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
#B59392 Light Brown Drab	181 147 146	(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)	27/42/34/11
#CAB356 Pyrite Yellow	202 179 86	(0.7679 0.1163 95.6)	22/24/75/5
#B4CDC2 Glaucous Green	180 205 194	(0.8265 0.0310 167.3)	34/10/27/0