About Chromary
Every color deserves a name.
Chromary is the dictionary of color, a free tool for every designer and brand. It gives every color a name, a number and a page, shows you what it goes with, and drops a designed brand kit every day. Today's is Night Glow.
SignalCH 0018 · #FF2D2D The dictionary
Every named color has a page and a CH number that never changes. Look one up by its name, its number or its hex, and the page tells you how to write it in every format, what reads on it and what goes with it.
Open the dictionaryHazardCH 0029 · #FF6700 The daily drop
Every day at midnight, New York time, a new brand kit drops: a primary color and its companions, three fonts, and a homepage that puts them all to work. Take what you like, or open it in Build and make it yours.
See the dropsSunCH 0041 · #FFD300 Build a brand kit
Spin a palette until it clicks and lock what you love. Pick the type, add your logo and photos, set the proportions, see it as a homepage, then take the whole brand book with you as CSS, Tailwind, Figma tokens, fonts or one short link.
Start buildingKellyCH 0050 · #4CBB17 Explore any color
Type any hex, roll the dice or turn the wheel. Every color you land on gets a page of its own, named after its nearest entry in the dictionary.
Start exploringElectricCH 0071 · #3A8DFF Official colors
A brand can make its color official: its name on the entry, the verified mark beside it and a link home, everywhere Chromary shows it. Nobody owns a color. One brand holds each entry.
Claim a colorUltravioletCH 0082 · #8F00FF Rooted in color science
Every color is measured in OKLab, where equal steps look equal, so its distances and harmonies hold up to the eye. Black or white text is chosen by APCA, the contrast model built for how people read, with WCAG ratios beside it. And every color is written for wherever it will live: hex and RGB for the web, Display P3 for the screens that can show it, CMYK for print, and Rec. 709, Rec. 2020 and Y′CbCr for video. At Chromary we care about color from the screen to the press to the grade.
Colors by family
Made in New York.
Chromary started on a shelf at RIOT, a New York creative agency, where we keep more than one copy of Sanzo Wada's A Dictionary of Color Combinations, worn soft from use. Chromary is our version on the web: a free color tool for every designer, with every color named in plain words, its combinations worked out, new brand drops added every day, and all of it one link away.
Questions, ideas, or a color we should have named: write to us, or at hello@chromary.app. A person reads every message.