Colorizer: see any text in your own colors

How to use it

1. Choose where the colors come from. My map reads the letter and number colors you chose in My synesthesia map on this device. Example colors are used when your map has no letter or number colors yet. They are not anyone's experience.
2. Type or paste your text, or press Load a sample. The text stays on this device. It is kept only if you turn on Remember my text on this device.
3. Choose How to show the colors: color the letters, color a tile behind each character, or color each whole word by its first character. Leave Keep text readable on if you want a color that is hard to read to appear on a tile instead.
4. Change the text size, the letter spacing and the background to suit you. Page colors follow the light, dark or high contrast setting you chose for this site.
5. Open Colors this page uses, as text to see the name and the hex code of every color in use, so nothing depends on seeing the colors.
6. Press Download as a picture (PNG), Download as a web page, Copy colored text or Print to use the result somewhere else.

Good to know

• This page shows text in colors you chose, or in example colors. It does not test anything, and it does not show what any other person sees. Only you can say what your own experience is like.
• It makes no claim that colored text helps with reading, memory or anything else. Try it and decide for yourself.
• Only the letters A to Z and the numbers 0 to 9 have colors. Letters with accents, other alphabets, punctuation and emoji are shown without color, and the page lists what was left without color in your text.
• A character is colored only if your map has a color for it. Characters you marked No color for this one, and characters you left empty, are shown without color. If lowercase letters have colors of their own in your map, the page uses them.
• Keep text readable draws a character on a tile of its color, with black or white text, when the color and the background have less than 4.5 to 1 contrast. 4.5 to 1 is the minimum contrast for normal text in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This page uses it for every text size. Turn it off to see the plain colors.
• The picture is 1,200 pixels wide and is drawn in your browser. Very long text may not fit in one picture, and the page says so instead of cutting the text off. The web page you download has no scripts and no links to other sites.
• Copy colored text puts the colors and the plain text on your clipboard. Some programs ignore the colors and paste only the text. Printing colors depends on your printer and on your browser setting for printing backgrounds.
• Your settings and your map stay in this browser on this device and nothing is sent anywhere. This page only reads your map and never changes it. Your text is saved only if you turn on Remember my text on this device. The limit is 20,000 characters.

Where this comes from

• The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 say that the visual presentation of text has "a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1", with a lower ratio of 3:1 for large-scale text, and define the ratio as "(L1 + 0.05) / (L2 + 0.05)" using the relative luminance of the lighter and the darker color: W3C, Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.3: Contrast (Minimum)
• The Synesthesia guide
• My synesthesia map

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