chromary

≈ Blue Check

no CH number yet · claim this color and its own CH number

Your hue at half the chroma, then a quarter. Same lightness, so it sits quietly beside you.

Muted companion · Same hue, half the chroma.

support≈ Taupe#708CAD
neutralCementCH 0566 · #929292
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
paperClub SodaCH 0580 · #E5F0FC

Color Values

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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#528CCF 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 #528CCF#528CCFSet in Club Soda on #528CCF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 57 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
#528CCF on Club Soda#528CCFSet in #528CCF on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 52 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
Ink on #528CCF#528CCF
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.6:1 WCAG AA
#528CCF on Ink#528CCF
Display sizesLc 39 · 5.6:1 WCAG AA
Blue Flash on #528CCF#528CCF
Display sizesLc 37 · 2.2:1 fails WCAG
Deep Sea on #528CCF#528CCF
Display sizesLc 34 · 3.7:1 WCAG AA large

For every eye: Club Soda on #528CCFThe 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 #528CCF in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

#528CCF
Red-blind (protanopia)
#528CCF
Green-blind (deuteranopia)
#528CCF
Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#528CCF
No color (achromatopsia)