Kinds of blue: Design tokens for contrast and accessibility
I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let's talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility.
Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI.

Bulent is a content marketer by trade and writes everything here that isn't films or games (which turns out to be most of it). He doesn't think writing about himself in the third person is the least bit weird. Born in the UK, Turkish Cypriot heritage, living in Germany.
I woke up today and decided to change the header colour from crimson to blue. Let's talk about design tokens, contrast and accessibility.
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