Combination 255
Sanzo Wada · Raw Sienna · Pyrite Yellow · Calamine BLue · Black
Combination 255 is a color combination of 4 colors, combination 255 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Raw Sienna #BB7125, Pyrite Yellow #CAB356, Calamine BLue #78CDD0, Black #111314. Its most readable text pair is #78CDD0 on #111314 (WCAG 10.15:1, AAA). 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#78CDD0 on #111314 · WCAG 10.15:1 · APCA Lc -67.7
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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