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About Accessible Color Generator
Accessible Color Generator takes a brand color and a background and checks whether the pair has enough contrast. If it does not, the tool suggests the closest variations that meet the WCAG AA or AAA guidelines, with separate results for large or bold text and for small text.
This lets you keep a palette close to its original look while making text readable. It suits designers and developers adjusting brand colors for an interface. The same site offers gradient, mesh gradient and data visualization palette tools.
Strengths
- Suggests the nearest accessible variation instead of just a pass or fail
- Supports both AA and AAA targets
- Separate results for large and small text
Limitations
- Works on one color pair at a time
- Page promotes the developer's courses and newsletter
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use in the browser.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Learn UI Design
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Adjusting brand colors so text meets WCAG contrast
- Categories
- Color tools, Website testing
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Accessible Color Generator
Compare allSoftware that can replace Accessible Color Generator for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Accessible Colors
A web checker that tests text and background contrast against WCAG and suggests the closest passing colors.
Accessible Colors also suggests the nearest passing colors for a text and background pair, checks AA and AAA, and bases its results on WCAG 2.0 contrast rules.
Contrast Finder
A web tool that checks color contrast against WCAG and suggests close valid color pairs.
Contrast Finder is open source under AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted, and it lets you choose whether to adjust the text or the background color.
WebAIM Contrast Checker
An online checker that tests foreground and background color contrast against WCAG AA and AAA levels.
WebAIM Contrast Checker reports pass or fail for normal text, large text and UI components, and offers shareable permalinks, but you adjust colors yourself with lightness controls.
Colour Contrast Analyser
A free desktop app for checking foreground and background color contrast against WCAG, with eyedropper pickers.
Colour Contrast Analyser is an open-source desktop app for Windows and macOS with a screen-wide eyedropper and sliders to adjust colors until they pass WCAG 2.2.
Colour Contrast Checker
A web tool that checks foreground and background colour pairs against WCAG contrast levels.
Colour Contrast Checker gives AA and AAA pass or fail results with RGB or HSL sliders and Google font previews, instead of suggesting a nearby accessible color.
Colorable
A web tool for testing the contrast of a text and background color pair against WCAG levels.
Colorable shows contrast ratio and WCAG level with HSL sliders and random or reverse buttons, leaving you to find the passing variation by hand.
Contrast Ratio
A web tool that calculates the WCAG contrast ratio between a text color and a background color.
Contrast Ratio updates the WCAG ratio live as you type and handles semi-transparent colors, but it does not suggest accessible alternatives.
Accessible Color Generator as an alternative
Listings that name Accessible Color Generator as an alternative.
RandomA11y
A web tool that generates random color pairs meeting WCAG contrast requirements.
Accessible Color Generator adjusts a brand color to the nearest accessible variation for a chosen background, with AA and AAA targets, though the page promotes the developer's courses.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
WhoCanUse
A web tool showing how a text and background color pair looks to people with various vision conditions.
Leonardo
Adobe's web tool for generating accessible color themes and scales from target contrast ratios.
Accessible Palette
A web tool for building color systems with consistent lightness and WCAG contrast across hues.
Huetone
An open-source web tool for building predictable, accessible color palettes in the LCH color space.
