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Color contrast checker saved my bacon on a client project last Tuesday
I spent 3 hours picking the perfect muted sage green for a website header, only to realize it failed WCAG contrast at every size. Had to scrap the whole palette and start over with a brighter green that looked like slime at first. Anyone else have a color scheme that passed tests but felt like a visual insult?
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the_terry6d agoMost Upvoted
The muted sage green thing is such a trap. I remember working on a bakery site and falling in love with this dusty rose color. Looked beautiful on my monitor but oh man, on a projector it was completely invisible against white text. Had to bump the saturation way up and it just felt wrong for weeks. The client actually loved the brighter version in the end, said it popped better. Still bugs me sometimes when I see the original mockup in my files though.
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henderson.hugo6d ago
Honestly, that story just flipped my thinking on muted colors completely.
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