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Re: Recommend efficient color contrast checker

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Jun 18, 2013 12:25PM

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Carol Foster wrote:

> Is there an easy way to use ColorZilla to identify small bits of color, such
> as text?

I usually just zoom the page (Control/Command +) and then use
ColorZilla to select the color I want.

You have to be a bit careful with picking colors from graphical text -
due to aliasing the text colors are often not a solid color, but each
pixel might be a slightly different color, especially near the edges
of the text. This makes it difficult to absolutely measure the text
color, though a bit of common sense can usually tell you whether the
graphical text has sufficient contrast or not, regardless of what the
RGB values are or the WCAG ratios tell you.

Jared