Combination 252

Sanzo Wada · Eugenia Red | B · Raw Sienna · Sulphine Yellow · Green Blue

Combination 252 is a vivid, warm, colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 252 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Eugenia Red | B #DA525D, Raw Sienna #BB7125, Sulphine Yellow #C19F2C, Green Blue #099197. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.55:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7.2). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

vivid warm colorful

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
#DA525D Eugenia Red \| B	218 82 93	(0.6221 0.1703 18.8)	8/80/54/1
#BB7125 Raw Sienna	187 113 37	(0.6170 0.1272 61.4)	21/59/94/11
#C19F2C Sulphine Yellow	193 159 44	(0.7140 0.1322 91.5)	23/32/91/9
#099197 Green Blue	9 145 151	(0.5975 0.1002 200.1)	79/21/40/5