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#85B9BA 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.
Charcoal on #85B9BA#85B9BASet in Charcoal on #85B9BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 8.6:1#85B9BA on Charcoal#85B9BASet in #85B9BA on Charcoal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 8.6:1Gunmetal on #85B9BA#85B9BASet in Gunmetal on #85B9BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 53 · 5.6:1#85B9BA on Gunmetal#85B9BASet in #85B9BA on Gunmetal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 53 · 5.6:1#85B9BA on Spruce Blue#85B9BASet in #85B9BA on Spruce Blue, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 47 · 4.2:1Spruce Blue on #85B9BA#85B9BASet in Spruce Blue on #85B9BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 46 · 4.2:1
For every eye: Charcoal on #85B9BA
#85B9BARed-blind (protanopia)#85B9BAGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#85B9BABlue-blind (tritanopia)#85B9BANo color (achromatopsia)