Combination 322
Sanzo Wada · Spectrum Red · Brick Red · Eupatorium Purple · Blue Violet
Combination 322 is a vivid, warm color combination of 4 colors, combination 322 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Spectrum Red #E31F26, Brick Red #A84222, Eupatorium Purple #BF5892, Blue Violet #6450A1. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.57:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 1.8). 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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#BF5892 on #6450A1 · WCAG 1.57:1 · APCA Lc -12.8
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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