Lea Verou 5/17/2024

On compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS

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This technical article examines how to use CSS Relative Color Syntax (RCS) to automatically generate readable text colors on arbitrary backgrounds, addressing a longstanding CSS pain point. It compares this approach with the upcoming CSS contrast-color() function, discussing implementation tradeoffs, browser support, and practical use cases for ensuring accessibility in web components and user-defined color scenarios.

On compliance vs readability: Generating text colors with CSS

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