Combination 259

Sanzo Wada · Lemon Yellow · Green Blue · Helvetia Blue · Warm Gray

Combination 259 is a color combination of 4 colors, combination 259 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Lemon Yellow #F8ED43, Green Blue #099197, Helvetia Blue #005B8D, Warm Gray #A1A39A. Its most readable text pair is #F8ED43 on #005B8D (WCAG 5.97:1, AA). 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

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#F8ED43 Lemon Yellow	248 237 67	(0.9270 0.1785 105.6)	8/1/80/0
#099197 Green Blue	9 145 151	(0.5975 0.1002 200.1)	79/21/40/5
#005B8D Helvetia Blue	0 91 141	(0.4524 0.1090 242.8)	93/60/22/6
#A1A39A Warm Gray	161 163 154	(0.7112 0.0130 116.9)	38/28/36/9