Slightly Remarkable

So What’s GrayBit?

Basically, it’s a PHP webapp that converts any web site into black-and-white. That’s right, even your images. This provides a great way to tell if your site has too high or too low of a contrast between its elements, and best of all (unlike other similar tools), GrayBit is interactive.

It doesn’t Work

This being the beta launch, we’re still ironing out some flaws in the system. Overall, though, GrayBit performs very well. If you’re trying a site like Yahoo, Amazon, or Google, the results will be mixed at best, due to the fact that those sites use tables for layout and GrayBit is designed with its target audience — accessibility-aware developers — in mind. Ergo, we’ve chosen to make the system optimal for our target audience, rather than trying to be everything for everybody (really, no one who makes a site like Amazon is going to care what their site looks like in black and white — they already obviously don’t care what it looks like with color!)

Special Thanks

I just wanted to take a minute and thank Bokeh from the Web Developer Forums for some help with the PNG processing functions. I was at a loss there for a couple days, unable to figure out how to get alpha transparency to work properly (due to my lack of experience with PHP and GD). Thanks to Bokeh, I was able to figure it out.

Now, for any further information, please direct your (undivided) attention to http://GrayBit.com/, where the fun goes vibrant in a completely colorless way!