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Combination 97

Sanzo Wada · Corinthian Pink · Etruscan Red

Combination 97 is a warm, monochrome color combination of 2 colors, combination 97 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Corinthian Pink #F8B6BA, Etruscan Red #C55347. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.64:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

warmmonochrome

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#F8B6BA Corinthian Pink248 182 186(0.8383 0.0770 14.8)0/39/19/0
#C55347 Etruscan Red197 83 71(0.5870 0.1485 28.5)17/77/70/6

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

Best text pair

below AA · 2.64:1
The quick brown fox#F8B6BA on #C55347 · WCAG 2.64:1 · APCA Lc -40.6

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 25.3
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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