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Color tools

A small kit of the color tools I reach for most when designing and building for the web. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and there is no sign-up. Pick a color once and it threads through every tool below.

Picker & converter

Pick or type a color and read it back in every format you need — copy any one with a click.

CMYK is a naïve sRGB approximation — for print, trust your ICC-managed proof. OKLCH and LAB are the perceptual spaces worth knowing.

Contrast checker

WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio between text and its background, with the pass/fail thresholds designers and devs are held to.

Large text — 24px / bold 18.66px
Normal body text at the smaller size used for paragraphs.
21.0contrast ratio

AA needs 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA needs 7:1 and 4.5:1. UI components and graphics need 3:1.

Harmonies

Classic color-wheel relationships built off the picker color. Click any swatch to copy its hex.

Tonal scale

A 50–950 ramp from the picker color, stepped in OKLCH lightness so the steps look even. Drop straight into a design-token set.

Mixer

Blend two colors. The space you interpolate in changes the result a lot — sRGB muddies through grey, OKLCH stays vivid.

50%

Gradient builder

Two-stop CSS gradient with adjustable angle. Copy the rule, including an OKLCH version for richer transitions.

135°

Want to see how the same color shifts between sRGB, Display P3, Rec. 2020 and HDR? That lives next door in colorspace tools.