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The Milkmaid

Johannes Vermeer, c. 1658

The Milkmaid is a muted palette of 6 colors taken from The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1658): #B2AE99, #937B55, #5F5342, #14304D, #312920, #0A0D11. Its most readable text pair is #B2AE99 on #0A0D11 (WCAG 8.72:1, 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
#B2AE99178 174 153(0.7483 0.0296 98.2)31/25/39/7
#937B55147 123 85(0.5961 0.0610 78.6)34/41/65/26
#5F534295 83 66(0.4491 0.0308 76.4)50/50/63/48
#14304D20 48 77(0.3033 0.0627 251.3)98/78/42/42
#31292049 41 32(0.2869 0.0197 70.2)60/61/69/75
#0A0D1110 13 17(0.1577 0.0099 255.7)84/74/60/89

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

Best text pair

AAA · 8.72:1
The quick brown fox#B2AE99 on #0A0D11 · WCAG 8.72:1 · APCA Lc -57.9

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 11.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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