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#E4517C 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 #E4517C#E4517CSet in Milk on #E4517C, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Body textLc 60 · 3.2:1 WCAG AA large#E4517C on Milk#E4517CSet in #E4517C on Milk, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 55 · 3.2:1 WCAG AA largeAqua on #E4517C#E4517CSet in Aqua on #E4517C, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 52 · 2.9:1 fails WCAGButter on #E4517C#E4517CSet in Butter on #E4517C, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 49 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG#E4517C on Aqua#E4517CSet in #E4517C on Aqua, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 48 · 2.9:1 fails WCAG#E4517C on Butter#E4517CSet in #E4517C on Butter, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Headlines and large textLc 45 · 2.7:1 fails WCAG
For every eye: Milk on #E4517CThe 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 #E4517C in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
#E4517CRed-blind (protanopia)#E4517CGreen-blind (deuteranopia)#E4517CBlue-blind (tritanopia)#E4517CNo color (achromatopsia)