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#81BCDE 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.
Ink on #81BCDE#81BCDESet in Ink on #81BCDE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 64 · 9.5:1#81BCDE on Ink#81BCDESet in #81BCDE on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 62 · 9.5:1Navy on #81BCDE#81BCDESet in Navy on #81BCDE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 7.0:1#81BCDE on Navy#81BCDESet in #81BCDE on Navy, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 7.0:1#81BCDE on Gunmetal#81BCDESet in #81BCDE on Gunmetal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.4:1Gunmetal on #81BCDE#81BCDESet in Gunmetal on #81BCDE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.4:1
For every eye: Ink on #81BCDE
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