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#BDC9DB 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) and the WCAG 2 ratio, for anyone working to a standard.
Ink on #BDC9DB#BDC9DBSet in Ink on #BDC9DB, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 74 · 11.7:1#BDC9DB on Ink#BDC9DBSet in #BDC9DB on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 73 · 11.7:1#BDC9DB on Navy#BDC9DBSet in #BDC9DB on Navy, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 69 · 8.6:1Navy on #BDC9DB#BDC9DBSet in Navy on #BDC9DB, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 69 · 8.6:1#BDC9DB on Gunmetal#BDC9DBSet in #BDC9DB on Gunmetal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 65 · 6.7:1Gunmetal on #BDC9DB#BDC9DBSet in Gunmetal on #BDC9DB, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 64 · 6.7:1
For every eye: Ink on #BDC9DB
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