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≈ Lilac MistText: auto, white, whichever reads better. Tap for black.

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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, loud, then in your register.

accentLemonCH 0040 · #FFF44F
supportSageCH 0055 · #9AA189
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
paperClub SodaCH 0580 · #E5F0FC
claim its number≈ Lilac MistAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Lilac Mist #9E9BB5.chromary

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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#8C8EAE 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 #8C8EAE#8C8EAESet in Club Soda on #8C8EAE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 54 · 2.8:1
#8C8EAE on Club Soda#8C8EAESet in #8C8EAE on Club Soda, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 49 · 2.8:1
Ink on #8C8EAE#8C8EAE
Display sizesLc 45 · 6.2:1
#8C8EAE on Ink#8C8EAE
Display sizesLc 43 · 6.2:1
Navy on #8C8EAE#8C8EAE
Display sizesLc 40 · 4.5:1
#8C8EAE on Navy#8C8EAE
Display sizesLc 39 · 4.5:1

For every eye: Club Soda on #8C8EAE

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Red-blind (protanopia)
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Green-blind (deuteranopia)
#8C8EAE
Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#8C8EAE
No color (achromatopsia)