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#DD9CE5 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.
Ink on #DD9CE5#DD9CE5Set in Ink on #DD9CE5, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 63 · 9.3:1#DD9CE5 on Ink#DD9CE5Set in #DD9CE5 on Ink, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 61 · 9.3:1Eggplant on #DD9CE5#DD9CE5Set in Eggplant on #DD9CE5, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 59 · 7.5:1#DD9CE5 on Eggplant#DD9CE5Set in #DD9CE5 on Eggplant, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 58 · 7.5:1#DD9CE5 on Iron#DD9CE5Set in #DD9CE5 on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.6:1Iron on #DD9CE5#DD9CE5Set in Iron on #DD9CE5, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 54 · 5.6:1
For every eye: Ink on #DD9CE5
#DD9CE5Red-blind (protanopia)#DD9CE5Green-blind (deuteranopia)#DD9CE5Blue-blind (tritanopia)#DD9CE5No color (achromatopsia)