Combination 289

Sanzo Wada · Lemon Yellow · Light Green Yellow · Violet Blue · Dull Violet Black

Combination 289 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 289 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Lemon Yellow #F8ED43, Light Green Yellow #C7D14F, Violet Blue #40456A, Dull Violet Black #1E0E3F. Its most readable text pair is #F8ED43 on #1E0E3F (WCAG 14.44:1, AAA). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7.8). Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3.4 off (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
#F8ED43 Lemon Yellow	248 237 67	(0.9270 0.1785 105.6)	8/1/80/0
#C7D14F Light Green Yellow	199 209 79	(0.8285 0.1520 113.4)	29/4/81/0
#40456A Violet Blue	64 69 106	(0.4027 0.0626 277.3)	82/73/33/22
#1E0E3F Dull Violet Black	30 14 63	(0.2213 0.0879 292.8)	100/100/39/49 ⚠ ΔE 3.4