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Combination 311

Sanzo Wada · Pompeian Red · Cream Yellow · Dark Greenish Glaucous · Light Green Yellow

Combination 311 is a color combination of 4 colors, combination 311 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Pompeian Red #AB2439, Cream Yellow #FDBF68, Dark Greenish Glaucous #B7C2A9, Light Green Yellow #C7D14F. Its most readable text pair is #AB2439 on #FDBF68 (WCAG 4.22:1, AA large). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 2.2). All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#AB2439 Pompeian Red171 36 57(0.4887 0.1697 18.3)23/96/69/16
#FDBF68 Cream Yellow253 191 104(0.8443 0.1262 73.9)0/31/65/0
#B7C2A9 Dark Greenish Glaucous183 194 169(0.7986 0.0365 126.6)33/16/37/2
#C7D14F Light Green Yellow199 209 79(0.8285 0.1520 113.4)29/4/81/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.6).

Best text pair

AA large · 4.22:1
The quick brown fox#AB2439 on #FDBF68 · WCAG 4.22:1 · APCA Lc 52

Color blindness

check · closest ΔE00 2.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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