chromary

≈ Burnt Caramel

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

The hue straight across the wheel. Once at full punch, once in your register: your lightness, and as much chroma as the hue holds there.

Complementary · Straight across the wheel.

accentCyan BlueCH 0402 · #31ABE0
support≈ Workwear#2B6482
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperChalkCH 0013 · #F4F4F0
claim its number≈ Burnt CaramelAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Burnt Caramel #7B5804.chromary

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#7F5132 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.

Chalk on #7F5132#7F5132Set in Chalk on #7F5132, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Any textLc 80 · 6.0:1 WCAG AA
#7F5132 on Chalk#7F5132Set in #7F5132 on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Any textLc 76 · 6.0:1 WCAG AA
Feather on #7F5132#7F5132Set in Feather on #7F5132, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 62 · 4.6:1 WCAG AA
Aurora on #7F5132#7F5132Set in Aurora on #7F5132, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 61 · 4.5:1 WCAG AA
#7F5132 on Feather#7F5132Set in #7F5132 on Feather, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 59 · 4.6:1 WCAG AA
#7F5132 on Aurora#7F5132Set in #7F5132 on Aurora, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 58 · 4.5:1 WCAG AA

For every eye: Chalk on #7F5132The 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 Chalk still stands clearly off #7F5132 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

#7F5132
Red-blind (protanopia)
#7F5132
Green-blind (deuteranopia)
#7F5132
Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#7F5132
No color (achromatopsia)