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#47320D 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 #47320D#47320DSet in Paper on #47320D, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 91 · 10.6:1 WCAG AAA#47320D on Paper#47320DSet in #47320D on Paper, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 88 · 10.6:1 WCAG AAAFeather on #47320D#47320DSet in Feather on #47320D, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 75 · 8.4:1 WCAG AAA#47320D on Feather#47320DSet in #47320D on Feather, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 74 · 8.4:1 WCAG AAAGreige on #47320D#47320DSet in Greige on #47320D, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 6.4:1 WCAG AA#47320D on Greige#47320DSet in #47320D on Greige, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 6.4:1 WCAG AA
For every eye: Paper on #47320DThe 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 #47320D in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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