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The Creation of Adam

Michelangelo, c. 1512

The Creation of Adam is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 5 colors taken from The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo (c. 1512): #D3C9B4, #AF925A, #8A7149, #625032, #412616. Its most readable text pair is #D3C9B4 on #412616 (WCAG 8.45:1, AAA). The colors stay apart for the three common kinds of color blindness. All of them print on coated paper (FOGRA39).

Colors sampled from the public-domain work with k-means clustering in OKLab.

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#D3C9B4211 201 180(0.8384 0.0306 85.6)19/19/31/2
#AF925A175 146 90(0.6738 0.0818 83.0)28/36/68/15
#8A7149138 113 73(0.5630 0.0643 78.6)36/44/70/30
#62503298 80 50(0.4419 0.0507 79.6)46/52/75/49
#41261665 38 22(0.2991 0.0487 50.7)47/71/79/72

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

Best text pair

AAA · 8.45:1
The quick brown fox#D3C9B4 on #412616 · WCAG 8.45:1 · APCA Lc -69.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 12.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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