Combination 257

Sanzo Wada · Spectrum Red · Orange Yellow · Blue · Aconite Violet

Combination 257 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 257 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Spectrum Red #E31F26, Orange Yellow #FCB315, Blue #006EB8, Aconite Violet #A36AA5. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.96:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 6.7). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Birthday Sunset vivid 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
#E31F26 Spectrum Red	227 31 38	(0.5861 0.2248 26.7)	1/96/87/0
#FCB315 Orange Yellow	252 179 21	(0.8149 0.1663 78.4)	0/35/92/0
#006EB8 Blue	0 110 184	(0.5261 0.1426 248.3)	87/51/0/0
#A36AA5 Aconite Violet	163 106 165	(0.6057 0.1086 325.6)	42/66/5/0