Contrast Ratio has a new home — and this is great news!

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It has been over a decade when I launched contrast-ratio.com, an app to calculate the WCAG 2.1 contrast ratio between any two CSS colors. At the time, all similar tools suffered from several flaws when being used for CSS editing:

Over the years, contrast-ratio.com grew in popularity: it was recommended in several books, talks, and workshops. It basically became the standard URL developers would visit for this purpose.

However, I’ve been too busy to work on it further beyond just merging pull requests. My time is currently split between the dozens of open source projects I have started and maintain, my TAG work, my CSS WG work, and my teaching & research at MIT.

Therefore, when Ross and Drew from Siege Media approached me with a generous offer to buy the domain, and a commitment to take over maintainship of the open source project, I was cautiously optimistic. But now, after having seen some of their plans for it, I could not be more certain that the future of this tool is much brighter with them.

Please join me in welcoming them to the project and help them get settled in as new stewards!

ETA: Siege Media Press Release