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Combination 47

Sanzo Wada · Etruscan Red · Grayish Lavender - B

Combination 47 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 47 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Etruscan Red #C55347, Grayish Lavender - B #C0A9B3. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.03:1). 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
#C55347 Etruscan Red197 83 71(0.5870 0.1485 28.5)17/77/70/6
#C0A9B3 Grayish Lavender - B192 169 179(0.7577 0.0299 349.7)26/35/21/3

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.5).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.03:1
The quick brown fox#C55347 on #C0A9B3 · WCAG 2.03:1 · APCA Lc 25

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 25.7
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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