Open Source

Open Standards We Follow

• HTML5 — W3C standard for markup
• CSS3 — W3C standard for styling
• JavaScript (ECMAScript) — ECMA International standard
• WCAG 2.2 — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (W3C)
• CSS Color Module Level 4 — W3C color specification
• WAI-ARIA — Web Accessibility Initiative standard
• RSS 2.0 — Really Simple Syndication
• PWA — Progressive Web App specifications

Open-Source Software We Use

OmniColor deliberately minimizes dependencies. We use only the following open-source resources:

Open Color Systems We Reference

Our color library, framework references, and palette generators draw from these open standards and open-source design systems:

• CSS Named Colors (W3C specification) — 148 standard color names
• Tailwind CSS (MIT License) — 19 color families with 10 shades each
• Bootstrap (MIT License) — 13 base colors, 8 theme colors
• Material Design (Apache License 2.0) — 19 color families with 10 shades each
• WCAG Color Contrast (W3C) — the standard contrast ratio formula
• Brettel/Viénot CVD matrices — color blindness simulation formulas

What We Do NOT Use

OmniColor is not built with these commonly used tools, for performance and privacy reasons:

• React, Vue, Angular, Svelte (or any JS framework)
• Webpack, Vite, Rollup (or any build tool)
• jQuery, Lodash (or any utility library)
• Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap CSS (as the site's own styling)
• Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom (or any analytics)
• Sentry, Rollbar (error tracking)
• Any npm dependency in production

Open to Contributions

OmniColor accepts community contributions:

• Bug reports: Report a bug
• Feature requests: Suggest a feature
• Content contributions: Write for us
• Security disclosure: Responsible disclosure
• Translation: Contact hello@omnicolor.pages.dev

Source Code Availability

The OmniColor source code is not currently open-sourced. However:

• All client-side JavaScript is viewable in any browser (no minification)
• Color mathematics is standard and documented on our Documentation page
• You are free to reimplement any of the algorithms yourself — colors and color theory are not copyrightable
• For commercial licensing or source access, contact hello@omnicolor.pages.dev

Supporting Open Source

Because OmniColor is built with open-source tools, we believe in giving back:

• We contribute bug reports to the open-source projects we use
• We sponsor open-source maintainers when possible
• We publish our color algorithms publicly for others to learn from
• We credit all open-source contributions on this page