chromary
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 BlueCH 0437 · #46A4F6
support≈ Periwinkle#6195BE
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#B38458 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 #B38458#B38458Set in Chalk on #B38458, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 58 · 2.9:1 fails WCAG
#B38458 on Chalk#B38458Set in #B38458 on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 53 · 2.9:1 fails WCAG
Charcoal on #B38458#B38458
Display sizesLc 42 · 5.6:1 WCAG AA
#B38458 on Charcoal#B38458
Display sizesLc 40 · 5.6:1 WCAG AA
Neon Aqua on #B38458#B38458
Display sizesLc 37 · 2.1:1 fails WCAG
Espresso on #B38458#B38458
Display sizesLc 35 · 3.6:1 WCAG AA large

For every eye: Chalk on #B38458The 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 #B38458 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)