Auric Artisan is a design and color analysis platform that helps you create better, more accessible visuals using advanced tools and simulations.
I started Auric Artisan because I kept asking the same question: do these colors actually work for real people? Most color tools show pretty swatches, but they rarely answer how palettes behave under different vision conditions, at different sizes, or against varying backgrounds. I wanted a toolkit that treats color and accessibility as first-class problems — a set of practical experiments and simulations I could use when designing for the web.
At its core, Auric Artisan scans interfaces for accessibility issues (WCAG contrast, focus visibility, semantic problems) and extracts palettes to validate them against perceptual thresholds. The vision simulator lets me toggle common color-vision deficiencies, lens yellowing, and other perceptual shifts so I can see what my choices look like to different people. I also built playful utilities — an ASCII-art generator that surprisingly helps test luminance hierarchy and silhouette clarity, and a palette validator that reports real hotspots where contrast will fail.
This project is personal: it's what I wish I'd had when I started designing. I care about making visuals that are beautiful and actually usable by diverse audiences. Auric Artisan doesn't replace critical thinking — it surfaces where designs break and gives you data to make better decisions.
If you're curious, try it out and tell me what breaks. My goal is a toolbox that helps designers and developers stop guessing and start validating — quickly, practically, and kindly.