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≈ Blue CheckText: auto, white, whichever reads better. Tap for black.

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Your hue, lighter and quieter: up 0.15 in lightness at three quarters of the chroma, then up 0.30 at half.

Tints · Lighter and quieter, twice.

supportBaby BlueCH 0081 · #89CFF0
neutralSky IceCH 0413 · #CFF2FD
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
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#389AD2 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 #389AD2#389AD2Set in Club Soda on #389AD2, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 52 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG
#389AD2 on Club Soda#389AD2Set in #389AD2 on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 48 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG
Ink on #389AD2#389AD2Set in Ink on #389AD2, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 45 · 6.2:1 WCAG AA
#389AD2 on Ink#389AD2
Display sizesLc 43 · 6.2:1 WCAG AA
Navy on #389AD2#389AD2
Display sizesLc 41 · 4.6:1 WCAG AA
#389AD2 on Navy#389AD2
Display sizesLc 40 · 4.6:1 WCAG AA

For every eye: Club Soda on #389AD2The 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 #389AD2 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

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