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Combination 295

Sanzo Wada · Cream Yellow · Yellow · Blue · Dull Violet Black

Combination 295 is a vivid, colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 295 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cream Yellow #FDBF68, Yellow #FFF200, Blue #006EB8, Dull Violet Black #1E0E3F. Its most readable text pair is #FFF200 on #1E0E3F (WCAG 15.09:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. Not every color prints on coated paper: the furthest is ΔE00 3.4 off (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#FDBF68 Cream Yellow253 191 104(0.8443 0.1262 73.9)0/31/65/0
#FFF200 Yellow255 242 0(0.9412 0.2004 105.7)6/0/89/0
#006EB8 Blue0 110 184(0.5261 0.1426 248.3)87/51/0/0
#1E0E3F Dull Violet Black30 14 63(0.2213 0.0879 292.8)100/100/39/49 ⚠ ΔE 3.4

Some colors are outside the coated print gamut (largest shift ΔE00 3.4).

Best text pair

AAA · 15.09:1
The quick brown fox#FFF200 on #1E0E3F · WCAG 15.09:1 · APCA Lc -95

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 10.7
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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