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Colour 
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Colour Contrast<br />

Checkers<br />

ustwo studios 2012 / PPP<br />

Foreground<br />

There are numerous tools out there which can<br />

be used to test your colour contrast. One of<br />

the most useful is Colour Contrast Analyser<br />

AA<br />

Background AAA<br />

which can be found here. There’s also a great<br />

online checker available here – just pop in the<br />

two colours and away you go! As a minimum<br />

AA (Large)<br />

AAA (Large)<br />

you should aim to pass AA standards; AAA is<br />

better but needs a lot of contrast, too much of<br />

which could have a negative impact on your<br />

designs. The tests also differentiate between<br />

body sized copy and “Large” text which is 18pt<br />

and above (or bold and larger than 14pt).<br />

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