Combination 291

Sanzo Wada · Light Green Yellow · Sea Green · Cobalt Green · Calamine BLue

Combination 291 is a pastel, cool color combination of 4 colors, combination 291 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Green Yellow #C7D14F, Sea Green #00B49B, Cobalt Green #96D1AA, Calamine BLue #78CDD0. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.58:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 7). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastel cool

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
#C7D14F Light Green Yellow	199 209 79	(0.8285 0.1520 113.4)	29/4/81/0
#00B49B Sea Green	0 180 155	(0.6889 0.1267 178.0)	74/0/49/0
#96D1AA Cobalt Green	150 209 170	(0.8096 0.0820 155.2)	46/0/43/0
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue	120 205 208	(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)	54/0/23/0