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Work · February 3, 2020

Color Safe

Find accessible color palettes based on WCAG guidelines

Color Safe launched on February 3, 2020 with 92 votes, #325 of 3,162 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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What it does

I find this neat tool that allows me to easily explore and find the accessible color palette for the text and its background. I hope you can enjoy it too. Kudos to the makers, Donielle and Adrian!

Color Safe is a tool to explore beautiful, accessible color palettes for your website based on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

Empowering designers with beautiful and accessible color palettes based on WCAG Guidelines of text and background contrast ratios. Enter a background color, and determine the styling of your text. Accessible text colors are generated with WCAG Guidelines recommend contrast ratio of 4.5 for small text or 3 for large text which is 24px or 18px bold. Changing the WCAG level to AA is less strict and will give you more color options. Increase font size to 24px or make font weight bold. Doing one of those will make the text 'Large Text' and give you more color options. We built this tool to help designers select color combinations that allow users to read their content regardless of different…from colorsafe.co

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