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Combination 285

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Burnt Sienna · Peach Red · Turquoise Green

Combination 285 is a warm color combination of 4 colors, combination 285 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Burnt Sienna #AE5224, Peach Red #F15A30, Turquoise Green #B5DECC. Its most readable text pair is #AE5224 on #B5DECC (WCAG 3.54:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

warm

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#B59392 Light Brown Drab181 147 146(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)27/42/34/11
#AE5224 Burnt Sienna174 82 36(0.5462 0.1338 44.5)24/73/93/15
#F15A30 Peach Red241 90 48(0.6614 0.1941 36.0)0/76/83/0
#B5DECC Turquoise Green181 222 204(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)33/0/26/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.2).

Best text pair

AA large · 3.54:1
The quick brown fox#AE5224 on #B5DECC · WCAG 3.54:1 · APCA Lc 50.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 9.1
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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