The ones people actually ask, answered without the vocabulary.
- I'm not a designer. Can I still use this?
- Yes — most of these tools were built for exactly that. Every finding is written as a consequence rather than a measurement, so you're told 'this text will be tiring to read' instead of a number you'd have to look up. Pick a starting color, and the tools handle the rest.
- How do I know if my color palette is good?
- A palette works when text on it is comfortable to read, the main button is impossible to miss, no two colors are secretly the same, and nothing collapses for color-blind viewers. Palette Doctor checks all four and tells you which one you failed — in plain words, not ratios.
- Will fixing my palette change my brand colors?
- No. The repair only moves brightness and intensity, never hue. Your blue stays blue and your red stays red — they just move to a version that people can actually read.
- Do I need to understand contrast ratios or WCAG?
- Not at all. Everything is written as a consequence rather than a measurement — 'tiring for older readers', 'washes out in sunlight'. The numbers are one click away if you want them.
- What does it mean when two colors are duplicates?
- It means nobody can see the difference between them. Design systems collect these by accident, and each one is another value to keep in sync forever while adding no meaning. Merging them is free maintenance you'll never have to do again.
- Do I need an account, and does any of this cost money?
- The core tools are free and need no account — they run in your browser, and images you open never leave it. An account only exists to save palettes across devices, and Pro adds the repair tools, semantic tokens and the audit report.