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#BC9CF6 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.
Ink on #BC9CF6#BC9CF6Set in Ink on #BC9CF6, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 8.6:1 WCAG AAA#BC9CF6 on Ink#BC9CF6Set in #BC9CF6 on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 57 · 8.6:1 WCAG AAABlack Grape on #BC9CF6#BC9CF6Set in Black Grape on #BC9CF6, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 53 · 6.1:1 WCAG AA#BC9CF6 on Black Grape#BC9CF6Set in #BC9CF6 on Black Grape, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 6.1:1 WCAG AAIron on #BC9CF6#BC9CF6Set in Iron on #BC9CF6, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 50 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA#BC9CF6 on Iron#BC9CF6Set in #BC9CF6 on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 50 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA
For every eye: Ink on #BC9CF6The 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 Ink still stands clearly off #BC9CF6 in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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