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≈ Pink Orchid

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Your hue, lighter and quieter: up 0.15 in lightness at three quarters of the chroma, then up 0.30 at half.

Tints · Lighter and quieter, twice.

supportDeluluCH 0596 · #C9B6F2
neutralFuchsia FrostCH 0522 · #FAE2FD
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
paperPink MistCH 0519 · #EFE8F5
claim its number≈ Pink OrchidAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Pink Orchid #B08DD0.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#A97EB6 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.

Pink Mist on #A97EB6#A97EB6Set in Pink Mist on #A97EB6, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 52 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG
#A97EB6 on Pink Mist#A97EB6Set in #A97EB6 on Pink Mist, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 48 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG
Ink on #A97EB6#A97EB6
Display sizesLc 43 · 5.9:1 WCAG AA
#A97EB6 on Ink#A97EB6
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.9:1 WCAG AA
Eggplant on #A97EB6#A97EB6
Display sizesLc 39 · 4.7:1 WCAG AA
#A97EB6 on Eggplant#A97EB6
Display sizesLc 38 · 4.7:1 WCAG AA

For every eye: Pink Mist on #A97EB6The 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 Pink Mist still stands clearly off #A97EB6 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

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