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Combination 41

Sanzo Wada · Dark Citrine · Calamine BLue

Combination 41 is a muted color combination of 2 colors, combination 41 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Dark Citrine #8B835B, Calamine BLue #78CDD0. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.08:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#8B835B Dark Citrine139 131 91(0.6068 0.0572 98.2)43/36/65/22
#78CDD0 Calamine BLue120 205 208(0.7958 0.0827 198.6)54/0/23/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.08:1
The quick brown fox#8B835B on #78CDD0 · WCAG 2.08:1 · APCA Lc 29.3

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 29.5
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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