Combination 282

Sanzo Wada · Eugenia Red | B · Maple · Cobalt Green · Lilac

Combination 282 is a warm, colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 282 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Eugenia Red | B #DA525D, Maple #C59F6B, Cobalt Green #96D1AA, Lilac #B984AF. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.24:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7.8). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

warm 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
#DA525D Eugenia Red \| B	218 82 93	(0.6221 0.1703 18.8)	8/80/54/1
#C59F6B Maple	197 159 107	(0.7253 0.0821 74.6)	21/36/62/8
#96D1AA Cobalt Green	150 209 170	(0.8096 0.0820 155.2)	46/0/43/0
#B984AF Lilac	185 132 175	(0.6795 0.0870 333.3)	31/56/9/0