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.

accent≈ Sky#35CDFA
support≈ Lagoon#279CBE
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperChalkCH 0013 · #F4F4F0
claim its number≈ OchreAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Ochre #CC7722.chromary

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#C57655 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 #C57655#C57655Set in Chalk on #C57655, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 59 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
#C57655 on Chalk#C57655Set in #C57655 on Chalk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 54 · 3.1:1 WCAG AA large
Charcoal on #C57655#C57655
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.4:1 WCAG AA
Mint Flash on #C57655#C57655
Display sizesLc 40 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG
#C57655 on Charcoal#C57655
Display sizesLc 39 · 5.4:1 WCAG AA
#C57655 on Mint Flash#C57655
Display sizesLc 37 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG

For every eye: Chalk on #C57655The 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 #C57655 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)