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Re: [EXTERNAL] Wondering whether an accessible color palette tool is possible

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From: Wu, Jingjing
Date: Oct 21, 2019 8:17AM

Thanks, Heather, for sharing the sites.

Colorbrewer 2 could be another useful site. (http://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&;scheme=BuGn&n=3)

Hope it helps too.
Thanks,
Jing

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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Heather Mariger
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2019 10:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] Wondering whether an accessible color palette tool is possible

Greetings,

I don't know of any tools but there are a couple of sites that may be useful:

Accessible Color Palette Builder
<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftoolness.github.io%2Faccessible-color-matrix%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cjingjing.wu%40ttu.edu%7C698e0e09e82a44f6163e08d7550d3639%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C1%7C637071387558543381&amp;sdata=TAD9rTaj32%2B5fQVVAC1HDtuHhMOGiHDZwOjFpvdOja0%3D&amp;reserved=0>
Color Safe <https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcolorsafe.co%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cjingjing.wu%40ttu.edu%7C698e0e09e82a44f6163e08d7550d3639%7C178a51bf8b2049ffb65556245d5c173c%7C0%7C1%7C637071387558543381&amp;sdata=JmxSuXAeVEM5X0VLJVZun%2FwAfyCswlqt2Dl5uWj2BW8%3D&amp;reserved=0>

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
H.

*Heather Mariger*
*Digital Accessibility Advocate*

*Center for Academic Innovation*
*Chemeketa Community College*
*4000 Lancaster Drive NE - 9/126A*
*Salem, OR 97305*

503.589.7832

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 1:24 PM < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Hi All,
> I previously used the color wheel in CorelDraw to build palettes of
> compatible colors. I can no longer use CorelDraw and am sometimes
> stumped to create good palettes. So my choices have tended toward
> monochromatic themes.I am wondering whether someone could create an
> accessible Web tool for this purpose. Any solution that helps to
> generate colors that really work together would be of enormous help to me.
> Perhaps a tool like this might also show that accessibility does not
> lead to dull looks.
> Jeff Gutsell
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