Combination 272

Sanzo Wada · Pale Lemon Yellow · Orange · Turquoise Green · Salvia Blue

Combination 272 is a pastel, colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 272 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pale Lemon Yellow #FFEFAE, Orange #F37420, Turquoise Green #B5DECC, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.48:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastel 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
#FFEFAE Pale Lemon Yellow	255 239 174	(0.9498 0.0841 95.9)	0/5/41/0
#F37420 Orange	243 116 32	(0.6981 0.1785 48.0)	0/65/91/0
#B5DECC Turquoise Green	181 222 204	(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)	33/0/26/0
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue	151 172 200	(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)	45/27/13/1