Your color as a brand: the primary, the secondary colors from the chosen scheme, lighter and darker versions for backgrounds and states, and the neutrals from night to paper through greys tinted with your hue. Copy it as CSS.
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#5498AA 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.
Club Soda on #5498AA#5498AASet in Club Soda on #5498AA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 2.8:1Acid on #5498AA#5498AASet in Acid on #5498AA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 2.7:1#5498AA on Club Soda#5498AASet in #5498AA on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 50 · 2.8:1#5498AA on Acid#5498AASet in #5498AA on Acid, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 48 · 2.7:1Charcoal on #5498AA#5498AADisplay sizesLc 44 · 5.8:1#5498AA on Charcoal#5498AADisplay sizesLc 41 · 5.8:1
For every eye: Club Soda on #5498AA
#5498AARed-blind (protanopia)#5498AAGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#5498AABlue-blind (tritanopia)#5498AANo color (achromatopsia)