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Accessibility Gen
Check foreground and background color pairs against WCAG 2.1, 2.2 and 3.0 (APCA) and Auric SD.
Accessibility Library
Use the Accessibility Library contrast map: choose a ground and a WCAG target, see every passing text color, copy twelve picks as…
Analyzer API
The URL Analyzer as three REST endpoints: ask what it can check, audit one page from its source with the scope you want, and render…
ASCII Art Generator
Image, text, webcam input, character sets, dithering, Sobel edge detection, render modes, charts, and exports.
Auric Artisan Browser Extension
Install and use Auric Artisan 1.0.2 in Chrome and Firefox: side panel, popup, color Picker, contrast, page audit, inspector…
Auric Artisan Plugins
Plugins suite across Figma, Penpot, Sketch, VS Code, Alfred, Raycast, Slack, Discord and Color of the Day social bots. Learn how to…
Basic Color Tools
Floating panels, Palette Studio, Palette Remix, Gradient Maker, Color Picker, Color Battle, Collage Maker, Quick Converter…
Chromatic Adaptation
Eight CAT methods, 12 illuminants, exponential adaptation timeline, image previews, state maps, LMS and SPD charts, batch Delta E…
Collage Maker
Complete guide to Auric Artisan Collage Maker: upload pictures, arrange and edit layers, measure coverage and overlap, and export…
Collage Measurement
Maintain the Auric Artisan collage studio: a history that records the state before each change, coverage and overlap read off the…
Color Atlas Gen
Generate color atlas datasets from CLI, JSON or YAML config, use the createColorUniverse API, choose color spaces, spectral…
Color Blindness Simulator
How to use Auric Artisan Color Blindness Simulator: the Workbench, Palette audit, 78-condition catalog, floating panels, metrics…
Color Contrast Checker
How to use the Color Contrast Checker: enter two hex colours, read the WCAG 2.1 ratio and five pass/fail grades, fix the text…
Color Science Lab
45 floating-panel tools, eight color science domains, linked controls, Compare, Analytics, exports, and library saves.
Design System Generator
How to use the Design System Generator: pick an industry, style and contrast target, read the OKLCH tokens, check the WCAG and APCA…
Dye in Solution
The numeric core and its dataset register, the CIE 1931 observer used at the resolution it is published, the two-species acid-base…
Font Library
How to use the Auric Artisan Font Library at /tool/font/: preview 2,213 families with your own text, filter by weight, script…
Gamut Explorer
Standard and custom RGB color spaces, CIE xy and u-prime v-prime diagrams, RGB to XYZ matrices, transfer curves, Lab and OKLab…
Gamut Map
Complete guide to Auric Artisan Gamut Map: CIELAB L* slices across five RGB spaces, four mapping methods, probe analysis, Delta E…
Gradient Gen
Create handmade multi-stop gradients, procedural aurora, nebula, spectral, terrain, thermal, golden, analogous, complementary…
Gradient Library
Browse 8,192 generated gradients across 12 methods, 2 to 46 stops, OKLCH metadata, interpolation spaces, easing curves, complexity…
Gradient Ramp
Maintain the Auric Artisan gradient ramp: interpolation in four spaces by six routes, per-step CIEDE2000 and the evenness that is a…
Harmony Gen
Generate complementary, split complementary, triadic, tetradic, square, analogous, monochromatic, hexadic, neutral, compound…
Harmony Library
Browse 8,192 deterministic color harmonies across 23 canonical color-theory schemes, search by harmony id, HEX and scheme, filter…
HDR Gamut Plot
Rec.709, Display-P3, and Rec.2020 overlays, CIE xy and u-prime v-prime axes, PQ and HLG tone curves, peak-nit controls, ICtCp and…
ICC Profile Reader
The 128-byte header at the offsets ISO 15076-1:2010 gives and the version field that was read from the wrong nibbles, the tag table…
Image Color Picker
Upload images, load image URLs, extract palettes with K-means++, use the canvas eyedropper, pin colors, review WCAG contrast pairs…
Ishihara Plate Generator
Comprehensive guide to generating Ishihara-style color plates: theory, algorithm, parameters, testing and accessibility…
LUT Lab
Maintain the LUT workbench: the one .cube axis order its reader and writer share, trilinear interpolation, the clipping predicate…
Material Under Light
The numeric core and its dataset register, the CIE 1931 observer on a 5 nm grid, the CIE D-series basis read on its own grid…
Palette Gen
Generate harmony, mathematical, scientific, evolutionary and random color palettes, inspect RGB, HEX, Lab, OKLCH, Delta E, entropy…
Palette Library
Browse 5,000,000 deterministic scientific color palettes, search by palette id and HEX, filter by hue, chroma, lightness and…
Perception & Vision
WebGL2 color vision deficiency simulation, scotopic and mesopic vision, age lens yellowing, macular degeneration, cataracts…
Personalization Generator
Preference color pools, tune controls, chunked generation, palettes, gradients, typography, UI pairs, posters, Brand Studio…
Psychophysics Bench
2AFC and yes/no paradigms, Gabor and grating stimuli, viewing geometry and staircases.
REST API
Create API keys in the account dashboard, authenticate with the x-api-key header, call /v1 endpoints for color conversion, palette…
Shade Gen
Generate OKLCH shade scales from base colors, create brand-system, accessible-ui, neutral-system, material-like, tailwind-like…
Shade Library
Browse 8,192 generated OKLCH shade systems, search by method, token, HEX and name, filter by hue, chroma, lightness and score…
Standard Illuminants
CIE standard illuminants, blackbody CCT, SPD charts, CRI Ra and R1-R14, TM-30 interpretation, metamerism index, chromatic…
SVG Recolor
Maintain the Auric Artisan SVG Recolor bench: a rewrite planned from the original file so two colours can trade places, a parser…
The Accessibility Corpus API
How to use the accessibility corpus and contrast map from your own code: browse and page five million pairs under a filter, cite…
The Gradient Library API
How to use the gradient collection from your own code: filter 8,192 generated ramps by whether they band, pull one whole with its…
The Harmony Library API
How to use the harmony collection from your own code: browse 8,192 schemes across 23 methods that are computed from a seed rather…
The Palette Library API
How to use the palette collection from your own code: five million palettes computed from a 660-byte manifest rather than stored, a…
The Shade Library API
How to use the shade collection from your own code: 8,192 token ramps each measured for whether it runs one way, how evenly its…
Tints & Shades Generator
HSL, luminance-equal and contrast-driven ramp engines, OKLab, CIELab, sRGB-linear and HSL mixing, tints, shades, tones, neutral…
Tone Mapping
Reinhard, Hable, ACES fit, custom curves, scopes and LUT exports.
Understanding Your Accessibility Report
A plain guide to reading an accessibility report: what the score means and why it is deliberately hard to raise, what each area…
URL Analyzer
Simple and advanced modes, audit workflow, SEO review, accessibility fixes, site scans, reports, and exports.
Visual Pathway
LMS cone responses, cone-opponent channels, retinal ganglion DoG, LGN pathways, V1 Gabor filters, V2 texture boundaries, V4 color…
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