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Combination 29

Sanzo Wada · Krongbergs Green · Salvia Blue

Combination 29 is a muted color combination of 2 colors, combination 29 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Krongbergs Green #84875E, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.61:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#84875E Krongbergs Green132 135 94(0.6102 0.0584 111.5)48/33/66/18
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue151 172 200(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)45/27/13/1

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.61:1
The quick brown fox#84875E on #97ACC8 · WCAG 1.61:1 · APCA Lc 17.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 22.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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