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Combination 77

Sanzo Wada · Eugenia Red | B · Vandar Poel's Blue

Combination 77 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 77 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Eugenia Red | B #DA525D, Vandar Poel'S Blue #064F6E. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.27:1). 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
#DA525D Eugenia Red | B218 82 93(0.6221 0.1703 18.8)8/80/54/1
#064F6E Vandar Poel'S Blue6 79 110(0.4035 0.0821 234.2)94/60/35/24

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.4).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.27:1
The quick brown fox#DA525D on #064F6E · WCAG 2.27:1 · APCA Lc -22.4

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 26.8
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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