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#CE95ED 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 #CE95ED#CE95EDSet in Ink on #CE95ED, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 8.5:1 WCAG AAA#CE95ED on Ink#CE95EDSet in #CE95ED on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 56 · 8.5:1 WCAG AAAEggplant on #CE95ED#CE95EDSet in Eggplant on #CE95ED, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 53 · 6.2:1 WCAG AA#CE95ED on Eggplant#CE95EDSet in #CE95ED on Eggplant, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 6.2:1 WCAG AAIron on #CE95ED#CE95EDSet in Iron on #CE95ED, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 49 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA#CE95ED on Iron#CE95EDSet in #CE95ED on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 49 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA
For every eye: Ink on #CE95EDThe 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 #CE95ED in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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