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The Scream

Edvard Munch, 1893

The Scream is a muted, warm, earthy palette of 5 colors taken from The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893): #B37A4B, #A44D37, #736355, #545254, #433E3F. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.9:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 6.6). 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
#B37A4B179 122 75(0.6279 0.0951 59.3)24/52/72/15
#A44D37164 77 55(0.5257 0.1206 35.3)26/75/78/20
#736355115 99 85(0.5110 0.0297 63.3)44/47/55/38
#54525484 82 84(0.4412 0.0041 325.6)60/53/48/43
#433E3F67 62 63(0.3692 0.0071 3.7)62/59/53/58

All colors print on coated paper (largest shift ΔE00 1).

Best text pair

below AA · 2.9:1
The quick brown fox#B37A4B on #433E3F · WCAG 2.9:1 · APCA Lc -28.5

Color blindness

check · closest ΔE00 6.6
Normal
Protanopia
Deuteranopia
Tritanopia

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