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Combination 28

Sanzo Wada · Madder Brown · Deep Indigo

Combination 28 is a dark color combination of 2 colors, combination 28 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Madder Brown #762C19, Deep Indigo #051230. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.89:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3 off (FOGRA39).

dark

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#762C19 Madder Brown118 44 25(0.3973 0.1087 35.4)32/86/91/45
#051230 Deep Indigo5 18 48(0.1919 0.0631 263.0)100/93/48/65 ⚠ ΔE 3.0

Some colors are outside the coated print gamut (largest shift ΔE00 3).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.89:1
The quick brown fox#762C19 on #051230 · WCAG 1.89:1 · APCA Lc -9.5

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 32.9
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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