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#AE865A 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.
Chalk on #AE865A#AE865ASet in Chalk on #AE865A, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 3.0:1#AE865A on Chalk#AE865ASet in #AE865A on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 3.0:1Charcoal on #AE865A#AE865ADisplay sizesLc 43 · 5.7:1#AE865A on Charcoal#AE865ADisplay sizesLc 41 · 5.7:1Espresso on #AE865A#AE865ADisplay sizesLc 35 · 3.6:1Iron on #AE865A#AE865ADisplay sizesLc 35 · 3.5:1
For every eye: Chalk on #AE865A
#AE865ARed-blind (protanopia)#AE865AGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#AE865ABlue-blind (tritanopia)#AE865ANo color (achromatopsia)