Optimal Overlay Finder For Readable Text on a Background Image

A trick you can use to make text better stand out against a background image, is to use a color overlay with a certain opacity on top of the image. This tool by Yaphi calculates the ideal opacity to use, so that the contrast meets the WCAG standards.

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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