Combination 250
Sanzo Wada · Pyrite Yellow · Peach Red · Sea Green · Nile Blue
Combination 250 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 250 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pyrite Yellow #CAB356, Peach Red #F15A30, Sea Green #00B49B, Nile Blue #BCE4E5. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.46:1). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#F15A30 on #BCE4E5 · WCAG 2.46:1 · APCA Lc 39.8
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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