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Combination 24

Sanzo Wada · Sepia · Veronia Purple

Combination 24 is a warm color combination of 2 colors, combination 24 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Sepia #644B1E, Veronia Purple #8C4C62. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.3:1). 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

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#644B1E Sepia100 75 30(0.4298 0.0700 79.6)42/55/91/51
#8C4C62 Veronia Purple140 76 98(0.4997 0.0900 358.9)37/73/37/26

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.3:1
The quick brown fox#644B1E on #8C4C62 · WCAG 1.3:1 · APCA Lc 0

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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