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#9E6988 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.
Milk on #9E6988#9E6988Set in Milk on #9E6988, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 67 · 3.9:1Lemon on #9E6988#9E6988Set in Lemon on #9E6988, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 65 · 3.8:1#9E6988 on Milk#9E6988Set in #9E6988 on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 62 · 3.9:1#9E6988 on Lemon#9E6988Set in #9E6988 on Lemon, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 61 · 3.8:1Sakura on #9E6988#9E6988Display sizesLc 43 · 2.7:1#9E6988 on Sakura#9E6988Display sizesLc 40 · 2.7:1
For every eye: Milk on #9E6988
#9E6988Red-blind (protanopia)#9E6988Green-blind (deuteranopia)#9E6988Blue-blind (tritanopia)#9E6988No color (achromatopsia)