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Combination 72

Sanzo Wada · Sulpher Yellow · Pale King's Blue

Combination 72 is a pastel, muted, light color combination of 2 colors, combination 72 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Sulpher Yellow #F5ECC2, Pale King'S Blue #A7D4E4. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.34:1). 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
#F5ECC2 Sulpher Yellow245 236 194(0.9397 0.0555 97.3)5/6/31/0
#A7D4E4 Pale King'S Blue167 212 228(0.8433 0.0520 221.6)38/5/10/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.8).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.34:1
The quick brown fox#F5ECC2 on #A7D4E4 · WCAG 1.34:1 · APCA Lc -17.4

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 24.9
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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