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#E6E4E3 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.
#E6E4E3 on Charcoal#E6E4E3Set in #E6E4E3 on Charcoal, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 90 · 14.7:1 WCAG AAACharcoal on #E6E4E3#E6E4E3Set in Charcoal on #E6E4E3, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 89 · 14.7:1 WCAG AAA#E6E4E3 on Iron#E6E4E3Set in #E6E4E3 on Iron, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 83 · 9.2:1 WCAG AAAIron on #E6E4E3#E6E4E3Set in Iron on #E6E4E3, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 81 · 9.2:1 WCAG AAA#E6E4E3 on Saddle Brown#E6E4E3Set in #E6E4E3 on Saddle Brown, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 78 · 7.2:1 WCAG AAASaddle Brown on #E6E4E3#E6E4E3Set in Saddle Brown on #E6E4E3, a line of text reads cleanly at this size.Any textLc 75 · 7.2:1 WCAG AAA
For every eye: #E6E4E3 on CharcoalThe 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 #E6E4E3 still stands clearly off Charcoal in all four, the pairing reads for everyone.
#E6E4E3Red-blind (protanopia)#E6E4E3Green-blind (deuteranopia)#E6E4E3Blue-blind (tritanopia)#E6E4E3No color (achromatopsia)