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#DC9EAF 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 #DC9EAF#DC9EAFSet in Charcoal on #DC9EAF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 8.5:1 WCAG AAA#DC9EAF on Charcoal#DC9EAFSet in #DC9EAF on Charcoal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 8.5:1 WCAG AAAEspresso on #DC9EAF#DC9EAFSet in Espresso on #DC9EAF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 5.5:1 WCAG AA#DC9EAF on Espresso#DC9EAFSet in #DC9EAF on Espresso, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 5.5:1 WCAG AA#DC9EAF on Clay#DC9EAFSet in #DC9EAF on Clay, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 46 · 4.2:1 WCAG AA largeClay on #DC9EAF#DC9EAFSet in Clay on #DC9EAF, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 46 · 4.2:1 WCAG AA large
For every eye: Charcoal on #DC9EAFThe 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 #DC9EAF in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
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