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Combination 68

Sanzo Wada · Light Brown Drab · Yellow

Combination 68 is a pastel color combination of 2 colors, combination 68 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Light Brown Drab #B59392, Yellow #FFF200. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.38:1). 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
#B59392 Light Brown Drab181 147 146(0.6942 0.0411 20.2)27/42/34/11
#FFF200 Yellow255 242 0(0.9412 0.2004 105.7)6/0/89/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 2).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.38:1
The quick brown fox#B59392 on #FFF200 · WCAG 2.38:1 · APCA Lc 43.2

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 22.1
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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