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Accessibility tooling: Contrast Checker
A minimalist, system-wide contrast tool for designers and developers
If you work in digital design, accessibility (a11y), or frontend development, checking color contrast is a daily ritual. Ensuring that text is readable and conforms to WCAG guidelines shouldn’t feel like a chore-yet for the longest time, it has been surprisingly frustrating.
Like many of you, I spent years juggling browser extensions and bloated third-party desktop tools. Browser extensions are great-until you need to sample colors from a native desktop window, a Figma canvas, a virtual machine, or an iOS Simulator. And the existing desktop tools I tried often felt sluggish, packed with confusing color wheels, or cluttered with extra menus when all I really wanted was a simple, quick answer: “Does this pass?”
I wanted an unobtrusive utility that lived at the OS level, could sample any pixel on my screen, and did one thing exceptionally well.
So I built Contrast Checker.
