Color contrast tools streamline the design phase by quickly assessing text legibility and ensuring adequate visual contrast. Many color contrast checkers are available online to help ensure your designs meet accessibility standards. Below, we’ve listed some well-known tools to help you get started, but you can explore others to find the one that best suits your needs.
- TPGi’s Colour Contrast Analyzer (Windows/Mac): A desktop application for Windows and macOS that helps designers and developers assess color contrast in digital interfaces to ensure readability and compliance with accessibility standards.
- Contraste app (macOS): An application for macOS that allows users to check color contrast ratios directly on their desktop, providing quick evaluations of text and background color combinations for accessibility.
- WebAIM’s Color Contrast Checker (Online): This is an online tool provided by WebAIM that enables users to input foreground and background colors and instantly evaluate the color contrast ratio to ensure readability for individuals with visual impairments.
- WebAIM’s Link Contrast Checker (Online): This is another online tool from WebAIM specifically designed to check the color contrast of links against their surrounding text or background, helping to ensure links are clearly distinguishable for users with color vision deficiencies.
- Deque Color Contrast Analyzer: This online tool provided by Deque allows you to check both hex and RGB color values and features a color adjuster to quickly determine color combinations that meet accessibility standards.