Color contrast refers to the difference between the brightness of the background color and foreground color of digital content. It’s crucial in design, art and visual communication as it affects ...

(Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design, written and researched by Pegie Stark Adam, a Poynter affiliate in the Visual Journalism area, and designed and produced by Anne Conneen, design editor at ...

When implementing web design and creating web content, we must carefully consider the use of colors. Our color choices impact our users, who may be color blind, have low vision, or some other ...

Ensure text has strong contrast against the background color. The simplest way to do this is to choose the Automatic setting for font colors. This makes it easier for everyone to easily make out your ...

Making websites accessible to users with disabilities – things like poor vision, blindness, limited dexterity – has been central to the mission of the web's overseers since the dawn of the browser.

Because color is incredibly subjective, personal and situational, it is difficult to study scientifically. There is no conclusive evidence to fully support one color’s beneficial effects on the human ...

Fixing color contrast issues should not take long. Ideally, you'll always use dark text on a light background or light text on a dark background. When you have a few minutes, identify a few pages at a ...