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#C5ADCA 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 #C5ADCA#C5ADCASet in Ink on #C5ADCA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 64 · 9.5:1#C5ADCA on Ink#C5ADCASet in #C5ADCA on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 62 · 9.5:1Graphite on #C5ADCA#C5ADCASet in Graphite on #C5ADCA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 6.9:1#C5ADCA on Graphite#C5ADCASet in #C5ADCA on Graphite, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 6.9:1#C5ADCA on Iron#C5ADCASet in #C5ADCA on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 55 · 5.7:1Iron on #C5ADCA#C5ADCASet in Iron on #C5ADCA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 55 · 5.7:1
For every eye: Ink on #C5ADCA
#C5ADCARed-blind (protanopia)#C5ADCAGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#C5ADCABlue-blind (tritanopia)#C5ADCANo color (achromatopsia)