How to create a 5-color palette where EVERY color is readable against EVERY other color with Python
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Creating a color palette where every color is readable against every other color is a high-level design challenge. As the number of colors in your palette increases, the "contrast space" shrinks significantly.
In this article, we’ll build a script that uses an iterative "Collision-Check" algorithm. It generates a candidate color, checks it against every color already in the palette, and only keeps it if it passes the WCAG AA threshold against all of them.