Design

Color tools for designers and dev-adjacent folk

HEX ↔ RGB ↔ HSL converter, WCAG contrast checker, palette generators — built for both pixel-pushers and content folks who care about accessibility.

10 tools

Choosing between these tools

Three tools around one question: will this colour combination actually be readable?

Contrast is measurable, not a matter of taste. WCAG defines a ratio from the relative luminance of two colours, and the thresholds are 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text at AA. The checker reports the ratio and the pass or fail at each level, which is the difference between a design review that ends in an opinion and one that ends in a number.

The converter moves a colour between HEX, RGB, HSL and their alpha variants without the rounding drift you get from converting twice by hand, and the palette generator builds harmonies from a base colour. Both are most useful next to the contrast checker: pick a palette, then confirm the pairs you intend to put text on actually clear the threshold before it reaches production.