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Combination 36

Sanzo Wada · Sulphine Yellow · Turquoise Green

Combination 36 is a pastel color combination of 2 colors, combination 36 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Sulphine Yellow #C19F2C, Turquoise Green #B5DECC. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.73:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

pastel

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#C19F2C Sulphine Yellow193 159 44(0.7140 0.1322 91.5)23/32/91/9
#B5DECC Turquoise Green181 222 204(0.8663 0.0496 166.7)33/0/26/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.2).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.73:1
The quick brown fox#C19F2C on #B5DECC · WCAG 1.73:1 · APCA Lc 25.1

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 26
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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