Combination 309

Sanzo Wada · Golden Yellow · Apricot Orange · Violet Blue · Vandar Poel's Blue

Combination 309 is a colorful color combination of 4 colors, combination 309 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Golden Yellow #F3A257, Apricot Orange #F68C50, Violet Blue #40456A, Vandar Poel'S Blue #064F6E. Its most readable text pair is #F3A257 on #40456A (WCAG 4.44:1, AA large). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 1.5). 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

Color	RGB	OKLCH	CMYK
#F3A257 Golden Yellow	243 162 87	(0.7782 0.1323 61.6)	1/44/71/0
#F68C50 Apricot Orange	246 140 80	(0.7434 0.1489 48.5)	0/55/71/0
#40456A Violet Blue	64 69 106	(0.4027 0.0626 277.3)	82/73/33/22
#064F6E Vandar Poel'S Blue	6 79 110	(0.4035 0.0821 234.2)	94/60/35/24