chromary

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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.

supportSandCH 0099 · #C2B280
neutralBanana CreamCH 0233 · #FDE7D0
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperChalkCH 0013 · #F4F4F0

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#AD814E 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 #AD814E#AD814ESet in Chalk on #AD814E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 60 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
#AD814E on Chalk#AD814ESet in #AD814E on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
Charcoal on #AD814E#AD814E
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.3:1 WCAG AA
#AD814E on Charcoal#AD814E
Display sizesLc 38 · 5.3:1 WCAG AA
Custard on #AD814E#AD814E
Display sizesLc 36 · 2.1:1 fails WCAG
#AD814E on Custard#AD814E
Display sizesLc 33 · 2.1:1 fails WCAG

For every eye: Chalk on #AD814EThe 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 #AD814E 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)