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The Persistence of Memory

Inspired by Salvador Dalí

The Persistence of Memory is a muted palette of 6 colors inspired by the colors of The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí (1931): #B5B37E, #78AA94, #A47731, #0D7A91, #724D1F, #1B1919. Its most readable text pair is #B5B37E on #1B1919 (WCAG 8.1:1, 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 work, which is still under copyright, so no image is shown here.

The colors

CMYK: Coated FOGRA39
ColorRGBOKLCHCMYK
#B5B37E181 179 126(0.7554 0.0712 106.2)32/21/57/5
#78AA94120 170 148(0.6961 0.0625 165.6)57/17/47/2
#A47731164 119 49(0.6012 0.1028 75.3)28/48/87/21
#0D7A9113 122 145(0.5356 0.0933 217.6)83/33/32/13
#724D1F114 77 31(0.4519 0.0790 69.1)37/59/91/46
#1B191927 25 25(0.2157 0.0031 17.4)72/68/61/84

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 0.9).

Best text pair

AAA · 8.1:1
The quick brown fox#B5B37E on #1B1919 · WCAG 8.1:1 · APCA Lc -58.5

Color blindness

safe · closest ΔE00 11.2
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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