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#AB6AB1 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.
Milk on #AB6AB1#AB6AB1Set in Milk on #AB6AB1, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 62 · 3.4:1 WCAG AA largeElectric Lemon on #AB6AB1#AB6AB1Set in Electric Lemon on #AB6AB1, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 3.3:1 WCAG AA large#AB6AB1 on Milk#AB6AB1Set in #AB6AB1 on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 3.4:1 WCAG AA large#AB6AB1 on Electric Lemon#AB6AB1Set in #AB6AB1 on Electric Lemon, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.3:1 WCAG AA largeAurora on #AB6AB1#AB6AB1Display sizesLc 44 · 2.6:1 fails WCAG#AB6AB1 on Aurora#AB6AB1Display sizesLc 41 · 2.6:1 fails WCAG
For every eye: Milk on #AB6AB1The 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 Milk still stands clearly off #AB6AB1 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
#AB6AB1Red-blind (protanopia)#AB6AB1Green-blind (deuteranopia)#AB6AB1Blue-blind (tritanopia)#AB6AB1No color (achromatopsia)