Combination 261

Sanzo Wada · Red · Pale Lemon Yellow · Calamine BLue · Warm Gray

Combination 261 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 261 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Red #A72144, Pale Lemon Yellow #FFEFAE, Calamine BLue #78CDD0, Warm Gray #A1A39A. Its most readable text pair is #A72144 on #FFEFAE (WCAG 6.18:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Winter 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
#A72144 Red	167 33 68	(0.4814 0.1688 12.0)	24/97/56/18
#FFEFAE Pale Lemon Yellow	255 239 174	(0.9498 0.0841 95.9)	0/5/41/0
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue	120 205 208	(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)	54/0/23/0
#A1A39A Warm Gray	161 163 154	(0.7112 0.0130 116.9)	38/28/36/9