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Checkmycolours.com spots color gaffes in your web designs
If there's one thing I've learned from watching the front page of Delicious, it's that designers love to bookmark things. More to the point, they love handy web tools that help them with their creative work.
One more tool to consider adding to your arsenal is Checkmycolours. Drop a URL into the box and press the check button, and you'll receive an exhaustive analysis of page elements and their contrast ratio and brightness/color difference. You can view the complete report or switch to an error-only view to focus on potential problems.
No, an automated checker isn't a substitute for years of design experience and an eye for what works, but this can definitely be a helpful reference point.
Here's a shocker for you - Checkmycolours.com passes their own tests with flying...oh, never mind.
Want more great color tools? If you missed it, Dolores put together a fantastic roundup of 10 great online color apps.
One more tool to consider adding to your arsenal is Checkmycolours. Drop a URL into the box and press the check button, and you'll receive an exhaustive analysis of page elements and their contrast ratio and brightness/color difference. You can view the complete report or switch to an error-only view to focus on potential problems.
No, an automated checker isn't a substitute for years of design experience and an eye for what works, but this can definitely be a helpful reference point.
Here's a shocker for you - Checkmycolours.com passes their own tests with flying...oh, never mind.
Want more great color tools? If you missed it, Dolores put together a fantastic roundup of 10 great online color apps.
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Geir said 4:22AM on 6-12-2009
I ran a test on http://www.checkmycolours.com/ and got this result:
Testing done on 84 elements
Luminosity Contrast Ratio: 2 failures
Brightness difference: 2 failures
Color difference: 2 failures
The screenshot for the article shows pass though....strange...or maybe they modified the page between our runs...
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Albert S said 7:31PM on 6-12-2009
Downloadsquad.com
Testing done on 1197 elements
Luminosity Contrast Ratio: 277 failures
Brightness difference: 307 failures
Color difference: 524 failures
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Lee Mathews said 6:09PM on 6-12-2009
We don't like to do things halfway.