chromary

≈ SandText: auto, black, whichever reads better. Tap for white.

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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.

accentElectric VioletCH 0468 · #7C3EF1
supportLilacCH 0088 · #C8A2C8
nightPanelCH 0004 · #12160D
paperPaperCH 0012 · #EEF2E6
claim its number≈ SandAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Sand #C2B280.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#B0B688 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.

Panel on #B0B688#B0B688Set in Panel on #B0B688, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Body textLc 61 · 8.6:1 WCAG AAA
#B0B688 on Panel#B0B688Set in #B0B688 on Panel, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 59 · 8.6:1 WCAG AAA
#B0B688 on Forest#B0B688Set in #B0B688 on Forest, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 53 · 5.5:1 WCAG AA
Forest on #B0B688#B0B688Set in Forest on #B0B688, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 53 · 5.5:1 WCAG AA
#B0B688 on Field Grey#B0B688Set in #B0B688 on Field Grey, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 48 · 4.3:1 WCAG AA large
Field Grey on #B0B688#B0B688Set in Field Grey on #B0B688, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 47 · 4.3:1 WCAG AA large

For every eye: Panel on #B0B688The 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 Panel still stands clearly off #B0B688 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

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Green-blind (deuteranopia)
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Blue-blind (tritanopia)
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No color (achromatopsia)