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

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Your hue, lighter and quieter: up 0.15 in lightness at three quarters of the chroma, then up 0.30 at half.

Tints · Lighter and quieter, twice.

support≈ Little Treat#FFC9FF
neutralMilkCH 0570 · #F2F2F2
nightInkCH 0003 · #0B0B0F
paperPink MistCH 0519 · #EFE8F5
claim its number≈ Thistle PinkAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Thistle Pink #C580D0.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#D891DA 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 #D891DA#D891DASet in Ink on #D891DA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 57 · 8.4:1 WCAG AAA
#D891DA on Ink#D891DASet in #D891DA on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 55 · 8.4:1 WCAG AAA
Eggplant on #D891DA#D891DASet in Eggplant on #D891DA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 54 · 6.7:1 WCAG AA
#D891DA on Eggplant#D891DASet in #D891DA on Eggplant, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 53 · 6.7:1 WCAG AA
Iron on #D891DA#D891DASet in Iron on #D891DA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 48 · 5.0:1 WCAG AA
#D891DA on Iron#D891DASet in #D891DA on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 48 · 5.0:1 WCAG AA

For every eye: Ink on #D891DAThe 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 #D891DA in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

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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)