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Combination 265

Sanzo Wada · Old Rose · Apricot Yellow · Olive Yellow · Dull Violet Black

Combination 265 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 265 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Old Rose #D46D7A, Apricot Yellow #FFDD00, Olive Yellow #A6A159, Dull Violet Black #1E0E3F. Its most readable text pair is #FFDD00 on #1E0E3F (WCAG 13.11:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3.4 off (FOGRA39).

colorful

Colors converted from the book's printed CMYK by Matt DesLauriers, after Dain M. Blodorn Kim (MIT).

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#D46D7A Old Rose212 109 122(0.6572 0.1297 13.4)13/68/39/2
#FFDD00 Apricot Yellow255 221 0(0.8987 0.1857 97.9)1/10/92/0
#A6A159 Olive Yellow166 161 89(0.6971 0.0942 105.1)37/26/73/9
#1E0E3F Dull Violet Black30 14 63(0.2213 0.0879 292.8)100/100/39/49 ⚠ ΔE 3.4

Some colors are outside the coated print gamut (largest shift ΔE00 3.4).

Best text pair

AAA · 13.11:1
The quick brown fox#FFDD00 on #1E0E3F · WCAG 13.11:1 · APCA Lc -85.5

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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