Glossary term
What is Contrast ratio?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Contrast ratio" means: A number that compares how bright text is with its background. Higher is easier to read. It is taught in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, UX Design With Figma: Design Apps People Love and Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers and 1 more course.
- 4 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Contrast ratio?
A number that compares how bright text is with its background. Higher is easier to read. (From HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website. 3 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Contrast ratio mean in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website?
A number that compares how bright text is with its background. Higher is easier to read.
What does Contrast ratio mean in UX Design With Figma: Design Apps People Love?
A number from 1:1 to 21:1 that compares how light or dark two colors are. Higher means easier to read.
What does Contrast ratio mean in Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers?
A number that says how different two colours are in lightness. A higher number is easier to read.
What does Contrast ratio mean in Build and Publish a Business Website With AI?
A number that measures how well text stands out from its background. Higher is easier to read. The accessibility guidelines ask for at least 4.5 to 1 for normal text.
Where is Contrast ratio taught?
Contrast ratio is defined in HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, UX Design With Figma: Design Apps People Love, Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers and Build and Publish a Business Website With AI.
HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First WebsiteUX Design With Figma: Design Apps People LoveGraphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-DesignersBuild and Publish a Business Website With AI
Which lessons cover Contrast ratio?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website, lesson 3.4: Contrast: make your text easy to read
- UX Design With Figma: Design Apps People Love, lesson 4.4: Color and contrast you can prove
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers, lesson 2.4: Contrast: make sure text can be read
Which terms are related to Contrast ratio?
Next to Contrast ratio in the course glossaries: Cascade, Box model, Class, Padding, Custom property, Margin, Viewport, Flexbox, Type scale and Style (Figma).
CascadeBox modelClassPaddingCustom propertyMarginViewportFlexboxType scaleStyle (Figma)
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Contrast ratio?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- HTML and CSS: Build and Launch Your First Website: No coding experience is needed.
- UX Design With Figma: Design Apps People Love: No design or coding experience.
- Graphic Design: Photoshop and Canva for Non-Designers: You can use a web browser, save a file and find it again.
- Build and Publish a Business Website With AI: No coding, design or marketing experience needed.