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Put up to four shades side by side. Each one comes with its contrast reading: what black text, white text or trim will look like on top of it.
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Large text on this colour Sample text on this colour
White text Contrast ratio :1
Large text on this colour Sample text on this colour
Black text Contrast ratio :1
Six words come up all over this page. Here they are, in the order you meet them.
The difference in brightness between two colours, written as a ratio: 4.5:1, 7:1. The higher the number, the more whatever sits on top stands out.
How much light the surface gives back: matte, satin, gloss. The pigment is the same in all three jars; the colour you perceive is not.
Where the shade sits between black and white, as a percentage. Two colours of similar lightness look alike from a distance, even when their hue has nothing in common.
The intensity of the pigment. At 0%, the colour is a grey; at 100%, it is pure. Furniture shades almost all live at the low end of the scale.
The colour hidden under a neutral. The same grey leans green next to oak and blue next to white trim: it is the undertone that moves, not the paint.
The accessibility threshold in use today: 4.5:1 for body text, 3:1 for large text. Below that, some people will not be able to read it.
The comparison sorts out two or three finalists. To build a whole room, start from a palette instead; to start from scratch, open the colour chart.
The ratios above are accurate; your screen is not. Order the two or three shades still in the running and look at them on the furniture, in the light of the room.
Samples painted in the real finish, shipped from Québec.
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