An open-source Figma plugin with a cool retro vibe. Utilize it to ensure your UI text is legible and create accessible color palettes for your design. Built on cutting-edge tech, Polychrom stands out as a best-in-class modern tool for managing color contrast.
Hello hunters and makers!
Before writing the first line of code, we spoke with designers and engineers and scoured forums and blog posts. As a result, we identified the three most important user demands for any contrast checker.
Here they are:
1. Adjusting text color to a background.
2. Adjusting the background color to text.
3. Displaying contrast for multiple objects.
We focused on those, and now Polychrom addresses every possible designer’s need. You can not only check if your colors provide enough contrast but also adjust any color on the fly, using Polychrom to create an accessible palette for your UI.
And that’s not all! Polychrom is packed with useful features:
— Displaying the contrast according to the innovative APCA method.
— Text size recommendations.
— Converter to OKLCH format.
— Full P3 gamut support.
— Handling opacities and blend modes.
— Background search algorithm.
— Highly responsive UI that follows changes on the fly.
— Cool retro aesthetics 😎
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Polychrom was developed by a team of believers at Evil Martians, specializing in product consulting for developer tools.
🙇♂️ Roman Shamin (https://twitter.com/romanshamin_en), the creator of OKLCH Color Picker & Converter, Harmony UI color palette, and Martian Mono font.
🙇♂️ Yuri Mikhin (https://twitter.com/yurimikhin), a frontend engineer at Evil Martians.
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We are truly grateful for your support and feedback 💜
This reminds me of the time when our designer said “This is not ADA compliance” 😂 Great tool for that
Polychrom has easily become one of my 2 go-to plugins for Contrast and Accessibility testing. It is not only extremely useful and reliable, itt also has an incredibly beautiful UI! Good job Martians!
As a designer and frontend-developer in one, I’ve been trying different tools for working with colors and palettes for years.
OKLCH was a fresh breath of air when creating and working with color palettes in design systems.
Today, Polychrome has become an awesome addition to my every day toolkit. Thanks for OKLCH support, fast and beautiful interface.
Impressive! I'm curious to know how Polychrom could help color-blind users create accessible color palettes. Has any research or testing been conducted on this matter?
Huge kudos to @romanshamin for the latest addition to the modern tool landscape: Polychrom. It is the perfect solution for managing color contrast, making it easier and more efficient than ever before!
I love the combination of design best practices + accessibility! From the content side, it can sometimes be difficult to describe the color or text size adjustments when giving feedback to the design team, so I'm intrigued by the clear numerical system on a sliding scale that we could all use within the same Figma file.
Wow, Polychrom looks amazing! What makes it stand out from other Figma plugins? How has the process of developing it been? I'd love to learn more!
I appreciate the responsiveness of the UI: how the data is updated immediately as you are picking a color, and how the UI adjusts to reflect it.
Best tool for managing colour contrast .. it's great congratulations for launching...
The lighthouse add-on for Chrome keeps on telling me that my text isn't legible due to the contrast being too low.
This is the same thing but for Figma?
About Polychrom on Product Hunt
“Best-in-class modern tool for managing color contrast”
Polychrom launched on Product Hunt on November 15th, 2023 and earned 187 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. An open-source Figma plugin with a cool retro vibe. Utilize it to ensure your UI text is legible and create accessible color palettes for your design. Built on cutting-edge tech, Polychrom stands out as a best-in-class modern tool for managing color contrast.
Polychrom was featured in Design Tools (259.6k followers), User Experience (364.7k followers), Developer Tools (511.1k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 150.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Polychrom?
Polychrom was hunted by Roman Shamin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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