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Re: Wondering whether an accessible color palette tool is possible

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From: jeffgutsell@fuse.net
Date: Oct 21, 2019 1:21PM

Heather, Phil, Jing,
Thanks for all the links. This will be a big help.
Jeff


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

I haven't had the opportunity to work on building a colour palette recently and am not sure of the latest tools. But Stéphanie Walter has a recent article on tools for inclusive design that includes a section on "Building an accessible color palette" where she includes brief descriptions of several tools you might find useful:
https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/color-accessibility-tools-resources-to-design-inclusive-products/

You might consider thinking of building an accessible palette in two stages.

First, find 2 or 3 colours that will form the base shades of your palette. For this, you might use any popular generic colour palette generator like:
https://colors.muz.li/
or
http://colormind.io/

Then take those colours and use some of the accessible colour palette tools in the article above to develop a few sets of accessible colour pairs (foreground font colour plus background colour):
https://toolness.github.io/accessible-color-matrix/
or
https://contrast-grid.eightshapes.com/

Phil.

On 2019-10-18 16:24, <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
>