About Color Fiind

Last updated 19 September 2026

Color Fiind is a working colour library: palettes you can copy, with the accessibility numbers attached so you know whether they will actually work before you ship them.

What this site is

Every palette on Color Fiind is a set of four HEX values with a name. That part is simple. What we add is the part most palette sites leave out: the contrast maths. Each palette page computes all six colour pairs using the WCAG 2.1 relative luminance formula, tells you which pairs pass AA and AAA for body and large text, names each swatch by its closest CSS colour, and reports the hue spread.

That means you can answer "is this readable?" with a number instead of an opinion. A palette that looks lovely and fails 4.5:1 on every pair is a palette that will get someone's accessibility audit rejected, and we would rather tell you that up front.

How palettes are made

Palettes come from three places, and we label which is which in the data:

• Curated sets — seasonal and thematic collections (soft autumn, deep winter, 70s, sunset) built around the colour theory that defines those categories.
• Generated variations — algorithmic variations on a base harmony, filtered so no two palettes in the library are perceptually near-identical. A duplicate is a wasted page for you and for us.
• Daily additions — a small number of new palettes added on a schedule, each checked against the existing library before publication.

How the data is checked

Contrast ratios use the WCAG 2.1 definition: sRGB channels are linearised, weighted 0.2126 / 0.7152 / 0.0722 to give relative luminance, then combined as (L1 + 0.05) / (L2 + 0.05). The implementation is verified against known reference values before every release — pure black on pure white must return 21.00:1, and mid-grey #777777 on white must return 4.48:1. If those two do not match, the release does not ship.

Colour names are matched to the CSS named colour set by weighted RGB distance. We publish the distance so you can see when a name is a loose fit rather than an exact one.

Who runs this

Color Fiind is built and maintained by a small team of designers and developers who got tired of copying palettes into a contrast checker by hand. The site is independent and funded by its own traffic.

If something on a page is wrong — a bad ratio, a mislabelled swatch, a palette that does not look like its description — tell us and we will fix it. Corrections are the fastest way to make the library trustworthy, and there is a contact address on the contact page.

Editorial standards

Our full editorial policy covers how written articles are produced, how AI assistance is used and disclosed, and how corrections are handled. The short version: every article names its author, states when it was last updated, and gets corrected rather than quietly deleted.