Combination 278
Sanzo Wada · Cream Yellow · Olive Ocher · Cossack Green · Dusky Green
Combination 278 is a color combination of 4 colors, combination 278 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cream Yellow #FDBF68, Olive Ocher #D6B43E, Cossack Green #437742, Dusky Green #004F46. Its most readable text pair is #FDBF68 on #004F46 (WCAG 5.81:1, AA). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 4.8). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#FDBF68 on #004F46 · WCAG 5.81:1 · APCA Lc -62.7
Color blindness
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