HarmoniesWays to pair this color with others by where they sit on the color wheel: its opposite, shapes of two to four colors spaced around the wheel, its neighbors on either side, then the same hue lighter, darker, warmer, cooler and quieter. Each strip leads with this color. Tap one to open its kit built that way.
How It Reads#232C0E set as type with the kit Chromary builds for it, both ways round, strongest first. Each is graded by APCA, the measure of how strongly text stands off its ground as eyes see it: Any text and Body text read at every size, Headlines and large text from about 24 pixels, Display sizes for names, logos and big headlines. Pairings too faint for text, or that collapse for red- or green-blind readers, are left out. The small numbers are the APCA score (Lc), then the WCAG 2 ratio and its verdict (AAA from 7 to 1, AA from 4.5, AA large from 3), for anyone working to that standard. The two can disagree on mid tones: APCA favors white text on saturated greens and oranges, where WCAG 2 favors black.
Paper on #232C0E#232C0ESet in Paper on #232C0E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 94 · 12.8:1 WCAG AAA#232C0E on Paper#232C0ESet in #232C0E on Paper, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 92 · 12.8:1 WCAG AAAFeather on #232C0E#232C0ESet in Feather on #232C0E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 78 · 10.1:1 WCAG AAA#232C0E on Feather#232C0ESet in #232C0E on Feather, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 78 · 10.1:1 WCAG AAA#232C0E on Dust#232C0ESet in #232C0E on Dust, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 67 · 8.3:1 WCAG AAADust on #232C0E#232C0ESet in Dust on #232C0E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 67 · 8.3:1 WCAG AAA
For every eye: Paper on #232C0EThe strongest pairing above, as people with color blindness see it. About 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women are color blind, most of them red-blind or green-blind, so reds and greens can look alike to them; blue-blind and no-color vision are rare. Each tile simulates the strongest form of one type (after Machado, Oliveira and Fernandes, 2009); most people who have it see a milder version. If Paper still stands clearly off #232C0E in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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