Combination 253

Sanzo Wada · Lemon Yellow · Apricot Orange · Cotinga Purple · Slate Color

Combination 253 is a color combination of 4 colors, combination 253 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Lemon Yellow #F8ED43, Apricot Orange #F68C50, Cotinga Purple #501345, Slate Color #34454C. Its most readable text pair is #F8ED43 on #501345 (WCAG 11.31:1, AAA). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Sunset

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
#F8ED43 Lemon Yellow	248 237 67	(0.9270 0.1785 105.6)	8/1/80/0
#F68C50 Apricot Orange	246 140 80	(0.7434 0.1489 48.5)	0/55/71/0
#501345 Cotinga Purple	80 19 69	(0.3108 0.1098 336.0)	67/100/34/43
#34454C Slate Color	52 69 76	(0.3786 0.0247 225.0)	76/55/50/48