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#C5B6DE 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 #C5B6DE#C5B6DESet in Ink on #C5B6DE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 68 · 10.4:1#C5B6DE on Ink#C5B6DESet in #C5B6DE on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 66 · 10.4:1Graphite on #C5B6DE#C5B6DESet in Graphite on #C5B6DE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 61 · 7.0:1#C5B6DE on Graphite#C5B6DESet in #C5B6DE on Graphite, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 61 · 7.0:1#C5B6DE on Iron#C5B6DESet in #C5B6DE on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 6.2:1Iron on #C5B6DE#C5B6DESet in Iron on #C5B6DE, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 6.2:1
For every eye: Ink on #C5B6DE
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