Combination 305

Sanzo Wada · Pinkish Cinnamon · Apricot Yellow · Citron Yellow · Turquoise Green

Combination 305 is a pastel, light color combination of 4 colors, combination 305 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pinkish Cinnamon #EEB480, Apricot Yellow #FFDD00, Citron Yellow #B2B73E, Turquoise Green #B5DECC. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.6:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastel light

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
#EEB480 Pinkish Cinnamon	238 180 128	(0.8116 0.0956 62.7)	5/35/54/0
#FFDD00 Apricot Yellow	255 221 0	(0.8987 0.1857 97.9)	1/10/92/0
#B2B73E Citron Yellow	178 183 62	(0.7529 0.1414 111.6)	36/16/87/2
#B5DECC Turquoise Green	181 222 204	(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)	33/0/26/0