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.

supportGreigeCH 0574 · #C5BCB0
neutralBanana CreamCH 0233 · #FDE7D0
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperChalkCH 0013 · #F4F4F0
claim its number≈ PeanutAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Peanut #BF966A.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#B0895D 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 #B0895D#B0895DSet in Chalk on #B0895D, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 57 · 2.8:1 fails WCAG
#B0895D on Chalk#B0895DSet in #B0895D on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 52 · 2.8:1 fails WCAG
Charcoal on #B0895D#B0895D
Display sizesLc 44 · 5.8:1 WCAG AA
#B0895D on Charcoal#B0895D
Display sizesLc 42 · 5.8:1 WCAG AA
Espresso on #B0895D#B0895D
Display sizesLc 36 · 3.7:1 WCAG AA large
Iron on #B0895D#B0895D
Display sizesLc 35 · 3.6:1 WCAG AA large

For every eye: Chalk on #B0895DThe 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 #B0895D 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)