chromary

≈ Blue Check

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The hue straight across the wheel. Once at full punch, once in your register: your lightness, and as much chroma as the hue holds there.

Complementary · Straight across the wheel.

accentGorpCH 0603 · #F79216
supportCaramelCH 0097 · #AF6F35
nightNight SkyCH 0667 · #0B1322
paperClub SodaCH 0580 · #E5F0FC
claim its number≈ Blue CheckAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Blue Check #1D9BF0.chromary

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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#328FCA 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.

Club Soda on #328FCA#328FCASet in Club Soda on #328FCA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 57 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
#328FCA on Club Soda#328FCASet in #328FCA on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 52 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
Night Sky on #328FCA#328FCA
Display sizesLc 40 · 5.2:1 WCAG AA
#328FCA on Night Sky#328FCA
Display sizesLc 38 · 5.2:1 WCAG AA
Blue Flash on #328FCA#328FCA
Display sizesLc 37 · 2.2:1 fails WCAG
#328FCA on Blue Flash#328FCA
Display sizesLc 34 · 2.2:1 fails WCAG

For every eye: Club Soda on #328FCAThe 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 Club Soda still stands clearly off #328FCA in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

#328FCA
Red-blind (protanopia)
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Green-blind (deuteranopia)
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Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#328FCA
No color (achromatopsia)