Combination 79 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 79 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Madder Brown #762C19, Green Blue #099197. 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).
Colors converted from the book's printed CMYK by Matt DesLauriers, after Dain M. Blodorn Kim (MIT).
The colors
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#762C19 on #099197 · WCAG 2.57:1 · APCA Lc 25
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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