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#509495 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) and the WCAG 2 ratio, for anyone working to a standard.
Milk on #509495#509495Set in Milk on #509495, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 3.1:1Lemon on #509495#509495Set in Lemon on #509495, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 3.0:1#509495 on Milk#509495Set in #509495 on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.1:1#509495 on Lemon#509495Set in #509495 on Lemon, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 53 · 3.0:1Charcoal on #509495#509495Display sizesLc 41 · 5.4:1#509495 on Charcoal#509495Display sizesLc 39 · 5.4:1
For every eye: Milk on #509495
#509495Red-blind (protanopia)#509495Green-blind (deuteranopia)#509495Blue-blind (tritanopia)#509495No color (achromatopsia)