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Combination 66

Sanzo Wada · Olive Ocher · Olive Green

Combination 66 is an earthy, monochrome color combination of 2 colors, combination 66 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Olive Ocher #D6B43E, Olive Green #6B7140. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.57:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#D6B43E Olive Ocher214 180 62(0.7792 0.1376 92.5)17/26/84/4
#6B7140 Olive Green107 113 64(0.5312 0.0704 114.5)56/38/80/27

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

Best text pair

below AA · 2.57:1
The quick brown fox#D6B43E on #6B7140 · WCAG 2.57:1 · APCA Lc -36.6

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 26.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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