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≈ Faded Rose

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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≈ Flamingo#FF9F97
neutralPink FrostCH 0162 · #FDE5E3
nightCharcoalCH 0560 · #121212
paperMilkCH 0570 · #F2F2F2
claim its number≈ Faded RoseAn unnamed color. Its nearest named color is Faded Rose #CF6275.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#E1615C 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.

Milk on #E1615C#E1615CSet in Milk on #E1615C, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 58 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
#E1615C on Milk#E1615CSet in #E1615C on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.
Headlines and large textLc 53 · 3.0:1 WCAG AA large
Charcoal on #E1615C#E1615C
Display sizesLc 41 · 5.4:1 WCAG AA
Glow Stick on #E1615C#E1615C
Display sizesLc 41 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG
#E1615C on Charcoal#E1615C
Display sizesLc 39 · 5.4:1 WCAG AA
#E1615C on Glow Stick#E1615C
Display sizesLc 38 · 2.3:1 fails WCAG

For every eye: Milk on #E1615CThe 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 Milk still stands clearly off #E1615C in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.

#E1615C
Red-blind (protanopia)
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Green-blind (deuteranopia)
#E1615C
Blue-blind (tritanopia)
#E1615C
No color (achromatopsia)