Contrast Checker

Paste two colours. See if they hold up on screen and in print.

Foreground
Background
Screen
Aa
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Print sim
Aa
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Screen · WCAG
contrast ratio
14.5 AA7 AAA21
Print · simulated
contrast ratio
14.5721

Screen colour is additive — your monitor emits red, green, and blue light directly. Print is subtractive — ink absorbs certain wavelengths and reflects the rest. Opposite mechanisms on the surface, but the same underlying physics: both are just light, measured in the same units, governed by the same equations. The difference is only where the photons originate. Which is exactly why a colour pair that clears every accessibility standard on screen can become illegible the moment it hits paper.