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Water Lilies

Claude Monet, 1906

Water Lilies is a muted, cool palette of 5 colors taken from Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1906): #ACB8AF, #80AB72, #5786A6, #55896A, #446585. No two of its colors make readable body text (best pair 2.97:1). Some colors get hard to tell apart with color blindness (closest pair ΔE00 5.4). 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
#ACB8AF172 184 175(0.7706 0.0183 153.5)36/20/31/3
#80AB72128 171 114(0.6953 0.0932 138.2)56/16/66/2
#5786A687 134 166(0.5991 0.0708 239.3)68/37/22/6
#55896A85 137 106(0.5843 0.0738 157.0)69/28/64/11
#44658568 101 133(0.4951 0.0643 248.5)77/53/30/14

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

Best text pair

below AA · 2.97:1
The quick brown fox#ACB8AF on #446585 · WCAG 2.97:1 · APCA Lc -39.9

Color blindness

check · closest ΔE00 5.4
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Protanopia
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