Color Accessibility & Contrast Tools

Color accessibility isn't just about compliance—it's about ensuring everyone can use your product effectively. The Color Contrast Checker evaluates individual color combinations against WCAG standards, which define minimum contrast ratios based on extensive research into readability. For normal text, you need 4.5:1 for AA compliance and 7:1 for AAA, while larger text (18pt+ or 14pt+ bold) has more lenient requirements of 3:1 and 4.5:1 respectively.

The Contrast Grid Checker revolutionizes palette testing by showing you every possible color combination in your palette at once. Instead of manually testing each pairing, you can instantly see which combinations pass or fail WCAG standards. This comprehensive view helps you identify problematic colors before they're integrated into your design system, saving hours of remediation work later.

Color blindness affects roughly 8% of men and 0.5% of women, yet many designers never test for it. The Color Blindness Simulator shows exactly how your designs appear to users with protanopia (red-blind), deuteranopia (green-blind), tritanopia (blue-blind), or complete color blindness. Testing with this tool often reveals that color-coded information becomes completely indistinguishable for certain users.

The Accessible Palette Generator takes a proactive approach by helping you create color systems that work for everyone from the start. It generates palettes with built-in consideration for color blindness and contrast requirements, ensuring your colors are both aesthetically pleasing and functionally accessible. This tool saves time by preventing accessibility issues rather than fixing them after the fact.