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Privacy, cookies and terms

Written to be read rather than to be defensible. If something here is vague, treat that as a bug and say so.

The short version

What happens to the colors and images you enter

Nothing leaves the page. Palette generation, tonal ramps, contrast ratios, color vision simulation, format conversion, gradient interpolation and image palette extraction are all implemented in JavaScript that runs on your device. There is no API, no processing server and no queue.

Images you drop into the extractor are decoded onto a canvas element in the page and analysed there. The file is not uploaded, and closing the tab discards it.

Several tools encode their current state in the page URL so a result can be shared or bookmarked. That URL is only transmitted if you send it to someone. See the analytics section for why it is not sent to Google.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 to count page views and understand which tools people use. Two settings deserve to be stated plainly, because they are unusual:

Google Analytics sets cookies to distinguish one visit from another. If you would rather it did not, any tracker blocker, Do Not Track extension, or Google's own opt-out add-on will stop it, and every tool on this site keeps working with it blocked.

Advertising

Advertising is not currently enabled on this site — no ad network script is loaded and no advertising cookies are set. If that changes, it will be Google AdSense, this section will be updated before it goes live, and the site's ads.txt will name the publisher account.

What is stored on your device

WhatWhereWhy
Saved paletteslocalStorageSo "Save" survives a reload. Never transmitted; cleared when you clear site data.
Current paletteThe URLSo a palette is shareable as a plain link.
Analytics identifiersCookies set by GoogleTo tell one visit from another. Only after you accept; removable as described above.
Your cookie choicelocalStorageSo the banner asks once. Never transmitted; changeable at any time below.

Analytics cookies are not strictly necessary, so under the EU ePrivacy Directive and GDPR you have to be asked before they are set. On your first visit a bar at the bottom of the page asks exactly once, with Decline weighted the same as Accept. Nothing is set until you answer: Google Consent Mode is initialised with every signal denied, so the analytics tag loads in a cookieless state and only upgrades if you agree.

The answer is stored in localStorage, not in a cookie, and applies to this browser only. You can change it at any time:

One limitation stated plainly: this banner is not a Google-certified consent management platform. If advertising is switched on later, serving personalised ads in the EEA or UK requires one, and it will be in place before any ad script loads for those visitors.

Terms, briefly

The tools are provided free and as-is, with no warranty. Color values, palettes and generated CSS are yours to use for anything, commercial included, with no attribution required — color values are not copyrightable in any case.

Accessibility results are computed with the published WCAG 2.x formulas and the Machado, Oliveira & Fernandes color vision matrices. They are accurate implementations of those specifications, but a passing ratio is not a legal compliance certification and does not replace testing with real users.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or a request to remove something: [email protected].

Last updated 1 August 2026.