Sanzo Wada Combination No. 79: Hex Codes & Room Preview

Combination No. 79 in use

The palette applied to simple layouts. Colors are assigned to roles automatically; try other arrangements.

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Background, surface, text and accent, taken from one of Wada’s combinations.

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Combination No. 79 as a living room

Painted following the 60-30-10 rule: about 60% wall color, 30% for the sofa, 10% for cushions, throw and vase. A fourth color goes to the rug and curtains; otherwise they stay undyed. Floor and ceiling stay neutral; the print shows the whole palette.

Readable text pairs

No pair of colors in this combination reaches a contrast of 3:1, so it is best used without text.

Analysis

Character

Dark & moderate

Lightness 50 (range 40–60)
Colorfulness 0.105

Average OKLCH lightness (0–100) and chroma (colorfulness).

Harmony

Complementary

Includes hues from opposite sides of the color wheel.

A heuristic based on the painter’s color wheel. Wada’s combinations often ignore textbook rules, which is part of their appeal.

Temperature

Warm & cool

Madder BrownWarm
Green BlueCool

Reds, oranges and yellows count as warm; greens, blues and violets as cool.

Distinctness

ΔE 51

Closest pair ΔE 50.5 · average ΔE 50.5

CIEDE2000 color difference. Below about 10 colors look related; above 30 they are clearly distinct.

Contrast

AaBest text pair: Madder Brown on Green Blue (2.6:1)

Contrast	WCAG	APCA Lc
AaAaMadder Brown · Green Blue	2.6:1Low	25 / 25

WCAG 2 contrast ratio for text, and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for each text/background direction.

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/* Sanzo Wada, combination No. 79 */
:root {
  --madder-brown: #762c19; /* Madder Brown */
  --green-blue: #099197; /* Green Blue */
}

/* Tailwind CSS v4 – Sanzo Wada, combination No. 79 */
@theme {
  --color-madder-brown: #762c19;
  --color-green-blue: #099197;
}

{
  "id": 79,
  "source": "Sanzo Wada, A Dictionary of Color Combinations",
  "colors": [
    {
      "name": "Madder Brown",
      "hex": "#762c19",
      "rgb": [
        118,
        44,
        25
      ],
      "cmyk": [
        36,
        88,
        100,
        38
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Green Blue",
      "hex": "#099197",
      "rgb": [
        9,
        145,
        151
      ],
      "cmyk": [
        82,
        24,
        40,
        3
      ]
    }
  ]
}

No. 79

Madder Brown

Green Blue

Combination No. 79 in use

Combination No. 79 as a living room

Readable text pairs

Analysis

Character

Harmony

Temperature

Distinctness

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