chromary

≈ Swimming Pool

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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
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
paperClub SodaCH 0580 · #E5F0FC
claim its number≈ Swimming PoolAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Swimming Pool #217BA2.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#368ABC 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 #368ABC#368ABCSet in Club Soda on #368ABC, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 60 · 3.2:1 WCAG AA large
#368ABC on Club Soda#368ABCSet in #368ABC on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.2:1 WCAG AA large
Neon Aqua on #368ABC#368ABC
Display sizesLc 42 · 2.5:1 fails WCAG
Blue Flash on #368ABC#368ABC
Display sizesLc 40 · 2.4:1 fails WCAG
#368ABC on Neon Aqua#368ABC
Display sizesLc 39 · 2.5:1 fails WCAG
Ink on #368ABC#368ABC
Display sizesLc 38 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA

For every eye: Club Soda on #368ABCThe 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 #368ABC in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

#368ABC
Red-blind (protanopia)
#368ABC
Green-blind (deuteranopia)
#368ABC
Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#368ABC
No color (achromatopsia)