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#B2814F 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 #B2814F#B2814FSet in Chalk on #B2814F, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large#B2814F on Chalk#B2814FSet in #B2814F on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA largeCharcoal on #B2814F#B2814FDisplay sizesLc 41 · 5.4:1 WCAG AA#B2814F on Charcoal#B2814FDisplay sizesLc 39 · 5.4:1 WCAG AASky Flash on #B2814F#B2814FDisplay sizesLc 37 · 2.2:1 fails WCAGCustard on #B2814F#B2814FDisplay sizesLc 35 · 2.1:1 fails WCAG
For every eye: Chalk on #B2814FThe 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 #B2814F in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
#B2814FRed-blind (protanopia)#B2814FGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#B2814FBlue-blind (tritanopia)#B2814FNo color (achromatopsia)