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Combination 25

Sanzo Wada · Etruscan Red · Nile Blue

Combination 25 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 25 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Etruscan Red #C55347, Nile Blue #BCE4E5. Its most readable text pair is #C55347 on #BCE4E5 (WCAG 3.27:1, AA large). 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
#C55347 Etruscan Red197 83 71(0.5870 0.1485 28.5)17/77/70/6
#BCE4E5 Nile Blue188 228 229(0.8908 0.0416 198.3)30/0/13/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.3).

Best text pair

AA large · 3.27:1
The quick brown fox#C55347 on #BCE4E5 · WCAG 3.27:1 · APCA Lc 50

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 36.1
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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