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2025 Posts

  1. OddContrast displays P3 gamut range in Oklch color format
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    Make the Web a More a Colorful Place!

    A guide to using new color spaces & formats with OddContrast

    OddBird’s color tool not only checks contrast ratios, but supports the new CSS color formats and spaces.

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    What’s New in CSS

    CSS Q&A Party

    Miriam Suzanne and Stacy Kvernmo answer questions from listeners about CSS – what the next big evolution for CSS may be, how to make a site more accessible, whether float is still useful, and what’s on their CSS wish list.

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  3. OddContrast displays sRGB gamut range in P3 color format and an estimate of foreground alpha value ratio.
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    New Features for OddContrast

    Display color gamut ranges and more

    OddContrast, OddBird’s color format converter and contrast checker, gets new features – including the ability to swap background and foreground colors, and display color gamut ranges on the color sliders. Contrast ratios now incorporate foreground color alpha values.

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2024

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    Using New Color Formats

    Miriam Suzanne, Stacy Kvernmo, and James Stuckey Weber demo how to use new color formats with OddContrast, a color tool for previewing, accessibility testing, and selecting the format/space.

2019

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    Miriam on stage talking and gesturing
in front of a projection screen
wearing a yellow leather jacket
and white-blue-pink lightning-bolt earrings
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    Embracing the Universal Web

    CSS-Tricks asked a number of web builders the same question…

    What about building websites has you interested this year?

    There are constantly new features appearing in browsers – from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It’s a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it’s still rooted in the limitations of the web from 2010. Ten years later, we’re able to create more “Intrinsic” designs (a term coined by Jen Simmons) and hopefully re-think some “best practices” that are now holding us back.

2017

  1. Jonny next to vertical stripes of color
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    How to Choose Beautiful & Accessible Brand Colors for Your Website

    How do you select a set of colors that express the attitude of your brand, look great together, and pass WCAG accessibility standards? How many colors is too many? This step-by-step guide outlines OddBird’s process for tackling these challenges. It’s important to define your brand goals first and review…

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  2. Sondra looks at large ampersand symbol painted on building exterior
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    How to Choose Engaging & Accessible Typography for Your Website Brand

    How do you choose the best fonts for a brand identity among the thousands of options available on the interwebs these days? Whether you’re starting from scratch or rebranding like us, this step-by-step guide can help focus and direct your process. First, define your brand goals. Next, explore your options…

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