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Digital accessibility resources
- Colour
Color palette: the 8-step method to stop improvising forever
Building an effective color palette isn't about "what I like" — it's a structured process that starts with function and ends with real-world testing. This article presents Professor Hideaki Chijiwa's 8-step method, unpacks the main types of chromatic harmony with their strengths and pitfalls, and reminds you of the golden rule beginners always break: fewer colors, never more.
- Colour
Color blindness and contrast: 350 million people are looking at your interface — not the way you think
8% of men are born with a color vision deficiency. 79% of homepages fail the minimum WCAG contrast test. And since June 2025, digital accessibility is a legal obligation for a growing number of companies. This article explores the biology of color blindness, the real figures behind digital non-compliance, and what design and dev teams need to integrate now — before a court asks them to.
- Colour
Colour: What Contrast Measures, What the Eye Feels
A contrast ratio of 4.5:1 is necessary — but it's not enough. Optical vibration, colour blindness, visual fatigue in dark mode: these are all phenomena that WCAG 2.1 doesn't measure. This guide covers both dimensions of chromatic accessibility — ratios and perception — including combinations to avoid, ones that hold up over time, and what WCAG 3.0 is preparing.
- Typography
Pairing Two Fonts Without Making Them Fight — and Other Things Design Systems Don't Say Out Loud
Two fonts that look too similar fall flat. Two strong personalities together create chaos. Between the two lies a single principle — contrast — and a handful of practical rules about legibility, hierarchy, and typographic colour that every developer should know before opening Figma.
- Typography
What Your Fonts Say About You (Before Anyone Reads a Word)
Serif, sans-serif, slab, script — behind these terms lie two centuries of formal decisions that still shape how we perceive text before we've even read it. A tour of the major typeface families: their history, their current uses, what's become dated, and what remains essential for building readable, coherent interfaces.
- Colour
Red advances, blue recedes — what your eyes do without asking you
Did you know that color can make a room appear larger, an object heavier, or an interface more cluttered — without changing a single pixel? This article explores the perceptual mechanisms that govern how we read color: depth effects, simultaneous contrast, optical mixing, and the brain's instinctive search for chromatic balance. Real physical phenomena, with very concrete design consequences.