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#CF429E 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.
Milk on #CF429E#CF429ESet in Milk on #CF429E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 65 · 3.8:1 WCAG AA largeLemon on #CF429E#CF429ESet in Lemon on #CF429E, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 63 · 3.7:1 WCAG AA large#CF429E on Milk#CF429ESet in #CF429E on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 3.8:1 WCAG AA large#CF429E on Lemon#CF429ESet in #CF429E on Lemon, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 3.7:1 WCAG AA largePink Pop on #CF429E#CF429EDisplay sizesLc 40 · 2.5:1 fails WCAG#CF429E on Pink Pop#CF429EDisplay sizesLc 37 · 2.5:1 fails WCAG
For every eye: Milk on #CF429EThe 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 Milk still stands clearly off #CF429E in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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