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Combination 98

Sanzo Wada · Madder Brown · Violet Blue

Combination 98 is a dark color combination of 2 colors, combination 98 in Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933–34): Madder Brown #762C19, Violet Blue #40456A. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 1.06:1). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

dark

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

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#762C19 Madder Brown118 44 25(0.3973 0.1087 35.4)32/86/91/45
#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

below AA · 1.06:1
The quick brown fox#762C19 on #40456A · WCAG 1.06:1 · APCA Lc 0

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 31.8
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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