WPWM Contrast-First Color Engine

To solve one of the biggest problems WordPress website owners have, making a good set of colors for their site, I wrote a color engine. Do in 20 minutes what professional theme developers take 8 to 12 hours to do.

Excellent Color Contrast

All colors in your color palette will be excellent contrast (WCAG AAA or better) with your near-black or near-white text colors.

No hours fiddling with the colors to get the contrast right. Flip it around: have the computer generate all the visibly different tints and shades you could use, and you simply click on the ones you prefer.

Enough Colors for a Professional Website

No having to make do with 4 to 8 colors. Yes, very few themes even have 10 colors. That isn’t enough, forcing you to make up colors from a “color picker”. Oops, that isn’t checked for good contrast, and is hard to pick consistently on different places on the page…

Professional websites need colors for separating different types of information, in a clearly organized system; I give you 24 colors: 2 tints and 2 shades of Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Accent colors (16 colors) plus light and dark of 3 types of message colors (6 colors) plus light and dark text colors.

You won’t use every one. You’ll have them available.

Accent is for links, buttons, menus, things the user should interact with.

Primary and Secondary are basically interchangeable, visually separate your main ideas, probably as section background colors. Your headings will probably be Primary Dark.

Tertiary is for information that should stand out, sidebars, quotes, maybe 10% of the page.

Should you use Primary-Lighter, Primary-Light, Primary-Dark, or Primary-Darker? Complete up to you, what you think is best for your visitors reading your post.

Free and Paid Plans

Free Version: You can export 20 times, ready to install (by copying files to the Theme folder). Plenty to learn the system, see the colors in use, modify the starting colors, until you get it right.

Paid plans for theme agencies. Either a set number of generated palettes, or a maximum number of palettes per month.