Combination 85 is a color combination of 2 colors, combination 85 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Vinaceous Tawny #C56127, Antwarp Blue #007190. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.36:1). 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#C56127 on #007190 · WCAG 1.36:1 · APCA Lc -8.7
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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