Advanced Color Converter

A powerful, real-time color tool for developers and designers. Convert, analyze, and generate colors instantly.

Modern Formats

WCAG Contrast

vs White 1.0 Fail
vs Black 21.0 AAA

Color Palette

Understanding Digital Color Formats

This tool allows you to convert between the most common color formats used in web design and development. Each format has its own strengths:

  • HEX (Hexadecimal): The most common format, a 6-digit code representing RGB values. Compact and widely supported.
  • RGBA (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha): Represents color with individual values for Red, Green, and Blue, plus an Alpha channel for transparency. Very intuitive for programmatic color manipulation.
  • HSLA (Hue, Saturation, Lightness, Alpha): Represents color based on its position on a color wheel (Hue), its intensity (Saturation), and its brightness (Lightness). Excellent for creating color harmonies.
  • HWB (Hue, Whiteness, Blackness): A newer, more intuitive way to create tints and shades of a color by mixing it with white or black.
  • LCH (Lightness, Chroma, Hue): A perceptually uniform color space, meaning changes in its values correspond more closely to how humans perceive color differences. Great for creating accessible color palettes.

Why is WCAG Contrast Important?

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide standards to make the web accessible to people with disabilities. A key part of this is ensuring text has enough contrast against its background to be easily readable.

This tool checks the selected color against black and white text and provides a rating:

  • Fail: The contrast is too low and will be difficult for many users to read.
  • AA: The minimum level of contrast required for most text.
  • AAA: An enhanced level of contrast, providing better readability for all users.