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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1831

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a muted palette of 5 colors taken from The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai (c. 1831): #F5EDD6, #E2B193, #8B9292, #3C6584, #1E3C5C. Its most readable text pair is #F5EDD6 on #1E3C5C (WCAG 9.68:1, 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
#F5EDD6245 237 214(0.9463 0.0315 91.0)4/7/20/0
#E2B193226 177 147(0.7974 0.0705 52.9)10/35/43/1
#8B9292139 146 146(0.6542 0.0082 197.0)46/33/35/13
#3C658460 101 132(0.4901 0.0680 242.5)79/51/30/15
#1E3C5C30 60 92(0.3494 0.0668 251.6)94/73/38/32

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

Best text pair

AAA · 9.68:1
The quick brown fox#F5EDD6 on #1E3C5C · WCAG 9.68:1 · APCA Lc -88.1

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 12.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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