Combination 274

Sanzo Wada · Peach Red · Dark Citrine · Olympic Blue · Light Mauve

Combination 274 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 274 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Peach Red #F15A30, Dark Citrine #8B835B, Olympic Blue #5A82B3, Light Mauve #9A72AA. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.18:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 2.4). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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
#F15A30 Peach Red	241 90 48	(0.6614 0.1941 36.0)	0/76/83/0
#8B835B Dark Citrine	139 131 91	(0.6068 0.0572 98.2)	43/36/65/22
#5A82B3 Olympic Blue	90 130 179	(0.5976 0.0877 254.1)	69/43/13/1
#9A72AA Light Mauve	154 114 170	(0.6123 0.0940 316.0)	46/61/6/0