A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
color-contrast() – Target Contrast Ratio Demo
Nice demo by Daniel Yuschick, showing how color-contrast() does its thing. Using the controls you can change the target contrast using a keyword or a custom value. Good use of Custom Properties there as well! 👨🔬 To check this demo you’ll need Safari Technology Preview 122+ with the CSS color-contrast() Experimental Feature enabled.
Leveraging Chromium’s built-in EyeDroper API —which I wrote about earlier this year— Patrick Brosset created an extension for Chromium that allows you to pick a color from anywhere on your screen. In an accompanying blogpost he also explains how he built it: Back when I worked on the [EyeDroper API] article, I got interested in …
Mid-August the WICG published a (unofficial) specification for a Native Eye Dropper — a tool you can use to get the color from the pixel that’s underneath the cursor — on the web. Let’s take a look … Usage The proposal is pretty straightforward: This API enables authors to use a browser supplied eyedropper in …
Continue reading “Pick Colors from websites your entire screen with the JavaScript EyeDropper API”
Over at the Cloud Four blog, Paul Hebert digs into HSL colors Colors on the web are confusing — but they don’t have to be! The HSL format makes it easy for humans and computers to work with color. Included are some nice CodePen-hosted Color Pickers, such as this one: See the Pen HSLA Color …