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Combination 8

Sanzo Wada · Cinnamon Rufous · Grayish Lavender - A

Combination 8 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 8 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Cinnamon Rufous #C27544, Grayish Lavender - A #B5B1D8. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.73:1). 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
#C27544 Cinnamon Rufous194 117 68(0.6363 0.1163 51.7)20/59/77/8
#B5B1D8 Grayish Lavender - A181 177 216(0.7767 0.0552 289.7)33/31/1/0

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.9).

Best text pair

below AA · 1.73:1
The quick brown fox#C27544 on #B5B1D8 · WCAG 1.73:1 · APCA Lc 20.7

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 32.8
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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