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
Best text pair
The quick brown fox#B2AE99 on #0A0D11 · WCAG 8.72:1 · APCA Lc -57.9
Color blindness
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia
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