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#DB99BA 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.
Charcoal on #DB99BA#DB99BASet in Charcoal on #DB99BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 8.2:1 WCAG AAA#DB99BA on Charcoal#DB99BASet in #DB99BA on Charcoal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 57 · 8.2:1 WCAG AAACabernet on #DB99BA#DB99BASet in Cabernet on #DB99BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 5.6:1 WCAG AA#DB99BA on Cabernet#DB99BASet in #DB99BA on Cabernet, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 51 · 5.6:1 WCAG AAIron on #DB99BA#DB99BASet in Iron on #DB99BA, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 50 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA#DB99BA on Iron#DB99BASet in #DB99BA on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 50 · 5.1:1 WCAG AA
For every eye: Charcoal on #DB99BAThe 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 Charcoal still stands clearly off #DB99BA in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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