chromary
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.

accentCyan BlueCH 0402 · #31ABE0
support≈ Periwinkle Blue#6392AF
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperChalkCH 0013 · #F4F4F0
claim its number≈ MochaAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Mocha #967969.chromary

Color Values

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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#AB8163 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.

Chalk on #AB8163#AB8163Set in Chalk on #AB8163, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 60 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
#AB8163 on Chalk#AB8163Set in #AB8163 on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
Charcoal on #AB8163#AB8163
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.3:1 WCAG AA
Neon Aqua on #AB8163#AB8163
Display sizesLc 39 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG
#AB8163 on Charcoal#AB8163
Display sizesLc 38 · 5.3:1 WCAG AA
#AB8163 on Neon Aqua#AB8163
Display sizesLc 36 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG

For every eye: Chalk on #AB8163The 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 Chalk still stands clearly off #AB8163 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)