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≈ LilacText: auto, black, whichever reads better. Tap for white.

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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, loud, then in your register.

accentAquaCH 0066 · #00FFFF
supportApple MintCH 0328 · #72AD9A
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperPink MilkCH 0556 · #F5E7EC
claim its number≈ LilacAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Lilac #C8A2C8.chromary

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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#D499A9 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.

Charcoal on #D499A9#D499A9Set in Charcoal on #D499A9, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 57 · 8.0:1
#D499A9 on Charcoal#D499A9Set in #D499A9 on Charcoal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 55 · 8.0:1
Espresso on #D499A9#D499A9Set in Espresso on #D499A9, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 49 · 5.2:1
#D499A9 on Espresso#D499A9Set in #D499A9 on Espresso, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 49 · 5.2:1
#D499A9 on Clay#D499A9
Display sizesLc 44 · 4.0:1
Clay on #D499A9#D499A9
Display sizesLc 43 · 4.0:1

For every eye: Charcoal on #D499A9

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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)