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Combination 38

Sanzo Wada · Diamine Green · Deep Lyons Blue

Combination 38 is a cool color combination of 2 colors, combination 38 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Diamine Green #1A7444, Deep Lyons Blue #1C4286. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.67:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. 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
#1A7444 Diamine Green26 116 68(0.4954 0.1123 154.6)85/30/86/18
#1C4286 Deep Lyons Blue28 66 134(0.3926 0.1222 261.0)98/80/15/3

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.4).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.67:1
The quick brown fox#1A7444 on #1C4286 · WCAG 1.67:1 · APCA Lc -11.6

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 14.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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