Web page font and colour selector / tester with colour blindness simulation

Benefit from IT's Fonts and Colours Lab helps you to design usable and accessible web pages. Try out up to 4 different combinations of fonts and colour schemes, and check how easily they can be read by people with the commonest forms of colour blindness. The Fonts and Colours Lab is implemented in DHTML with dynamically-written layers. Copyright 2002-2005 Philip Chalmers.

The Fonts and Colours Lab requires a browser which will run JavaScript. Your browser either:

Can run JavaScript but you have told it not to. In this case please set your browser to run JavaScript, refresh this page and use the Lab to try out font and colour combinations.

Is incapable of running Javascript. In this case, we suggest you download a newer version from the supplier.

If you are using Netscape 4 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher you probaby have JavaScript turned off in your Options / Preferences. Netscape Navigator version 4.0.x users: There is a known bug in Netscape Navigator version 4.0.x which will cause you to see this message if you have the local cache turned off. Please use Edit Preferences to turn the local cache on.

Select a sample:

or click a sample

Font Name:

Font Size:

Bold:

Italic:

Click the "Text" or "Background" button then click a colour:

Text:

currently

Background:

currently

for the current sample. NB this resets the colour vision filter to normal.

Show how all samples look to a user whose colour vision is: