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Combination 83

Sanzo Wada · Olive Buff · Violet Blue

Combination 83 is a muted color combination of 2 colors, combination 83 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Olive Buff #C1C494, Violet Blue #40456A. Its most readable text pair is #C1C494 on #40456A (WCAG 5.09:1, AA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

muted

Colors converted from the book's printed CMYK by Matt DesLauriers, after Dain M. Blodorn Kim (MIT).

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#C1C494 Olive Buff193 196 148(0.8059 0.0644 110.7)29/15/49/2
#40456A Violet Blue64 69 106(0.4027 0.0626 277.3)82/73/33/22

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

Best text pair

AA · 5.09:1
The quick brown fox#C1C494 on #40456A · WCAG 5.09:1 · APCA Lc -56.5

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 48
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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