Credits

OmniColor would not exist without the open-source community, the standards bodies, and the many individuals whose work quietly makes the web function.

Standards Bodies

OmniColor is built on standards maintained by:

  • W3C — HTML5, CSS3, WCAG 2.2, WAI-ARIA, CSS Color Module Level 4
  • ECMA International — ECMAScript (JavaScript) specification
  • WHATWG — HTML Living Standard, URL Standard, DOM Standard
  • IETF — HTTP, TLS, URI specifications
  • CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage) — Colorimetry, CIE Lab, color difference formulas

Their volunteer-driven work defines the standards that OmniColor depends on.

Open-Source Projects

Fonts

  • Inter by Rasmus Andersson — SIL OFL 1.1
  • JetBrains Mono by JetBrains — SIL OFL 1.1

Color Systems Referenced

  • Tailwind CSS by Tailwind Labs — MIT License
  • Bootstrap by Bootstrap Team — MIT License
  • Material Design by Google — Apache 2.0

Scientific Research

  • Hans Brettel, Françoise Viénot, John D. Mollon — CVD simulation matrices
  • Albert Munsell — Munsell color system
  • Johannes Itten — Bauhaus color theory foundations
  • W3C AGWG — WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards

Infrastructure

  • Cloudflare Pages — static site hosting and CDN
  • Cloudflare Workers — edge redirects and security
  • GitHub — source code repository

Content References

Our articles and guides draw on research and writing from:

  • MDN Web Docs — CSS, JavaScript and web platform documentation
  • W3C specifications — primary source for standards claims
  • Smashing Magazine — design and development writing
  • A List Apart — web standards and design articles
  • Material Design Guidelines — Google's design documentation
  • Apple Human Interface Guidelines — Apple's design documentation

All references are cited inline where used. Our citations are links to the primary sources, not to secondary coverage.

Community Contributions

OmniColor's tools and content have been improved by feedback from:

  • Readers who reported bugs
  • Designers who suggested features
  • Accessibility testers who found issues
  • Users who reported incorrect color values
  • Educators who provided feedback on our educational content

We are grateful to everyone who has taken the time to help make OmniColor better. Your contributions — even small ones — make a real difference.

Individual Acknowledgments

We would like to thank specifically:

  • Rasmus Andersson for creating Inter, and making it available under an open license
  • JetBrains for JetBrains Mono, a font that makes code and color values readable
  • The Tailwind team for their excellent color palette design that inspired many of our reference tools
  • The W3C AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) for WCAG 2.2, which defines the accessibility standards we implement
  • The Cloudflare team for making static hosting so easy and fast that a small team can compete with much larger sites
  • Our users — every person who has visited, bookmarked, shared or used an OmniColor tool

AI Tools Used in Development

In the interest of transparency: OmniColor uses AI-assisted code generation and content editing as part of our development workflow. Every line of code and every article is reviewed by a human before publication. We do not publish raw AI-generated content — AI is used as a tool, not as a replacement for human editorial standards.

See our Editorial Standards for how we ensure content quality regardless of how it was drafted.

How to Be Credited

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We want to give credit where credit is due. If we have missed someone, that is an oversight we want to fix.

Thank You

To everyone who maintains open standards, publishes open-source code, writes documentation, or simply uses OmniColor and tells a friend — thank you. The web works because of people like you.