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Can your customers actually read your colors?
Find out in seconds. Check your text and background colors against WCAG AA and AAA, see your brand the way people with color blindness do, and pull a palette from any photo. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Can everyone read that?
A color contrast checker from your friendly neighborhood design nerds.
Your palette
Add up to 5 colors and every text/background pairing gets tested below. Tap a cell to load that pair above. Colors sent from the Palette puller land here automatically.
The preview
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
The quick brown fox
How others see your colors
Upload any image to see it through seven types of color vision, including the mild red-green types most colorblind people actually have. Great for checking brand materials before you print or publish.
Your image never leaves your deviceor drag & drop one here
If important information is only conveyed by color (like "red means stop, green means go"), make sure there's also a shape, label, or pattern difference.
Pull a palette from any image
Upload a photo, brand image, or inspiration pic. Get the dominant colors as hex codes, ready to copy.
Processed entirely on your deviceor drag & drop one here
Click anywhere on the image to add that color to your palette
Extracted palette
Click any swatch to copy its hex code.
Hand-picked colors
Colors are extracted using k-means clustering. The algorithm finds the most representative colors, not just the most frequent pixels.
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