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Combination 294

Sanzo Wada · Sulpher Yellow · Cream Yellow · Cossack Green · Salvia Blue

Combination 294 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 294 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Sulpher Yellow #F5ECC2, Cream Yellow #FDBF68, Cossack Green #437742, Salvia Blue #97ACC8. Its most readable text pair is #F5ECC2 on #437742 (WCAG 4.46:1, AA large). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

colorful

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#F5ECC2 Sulpher Yellow245 236 194(0.9397 0.0555 97.3)5/6/31/0
#FDBF68 Cream Yellow253 191 104(0.8443 0.1262 73.9)0/31/65/0
#437742 Cossack Green67 119 66(0.5187 0.0986 143.6)75/32/86/18
#97ACC8 Salvia Blue151 172 200(0.7378 0.0470 255.7)45/27/13/1

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.8).

Best text pair

AA large · 4.46:1
The quick brown fox#F5ECC2 on #437742 · WCAG 4.46:1 · APCA Lc -68.8

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 13.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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