A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material comprising at least one light-sensitive layer, which is constituted of a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers having substantially the same color sensitiveness but being different in sensitivities and contains a dye image-forming coupler, provided by coating on a support, said material being constituted so as to satisfy the four requirements as specified below:
- (a) said plurality of silver halide emulsion layers in said light-sensitive layer are provided by coating in the order from the support side, a low sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer, medium sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer and high sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer;
- (b) a non-sensitive intermediate layer is provided by coating between said low sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer and said medium sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer;
- (c) the density of a dye image-forming coupler in said medium sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer is 10 to 60% of the density of the dye image forming coupler in said low sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer;
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- (d) the maximum color-formed density (D) in said medium sensitivity silver halide emulsion layer is 0.6<D<1.2.