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Christina_Helmer
Christina_Helmer
New Participant
Nov 5, 2026 10:02 PM UTC
Question

Check designs feature is not calculating contrast correctly

I noticed that the check designs feature is not correctly calculating the contrast when the background is a transparent colour. My example shows how check designs is flagging this text that sits on a transparent black background and is suggesting a colour that is actually not compliant if I ended up applying it. 


When I check directly the text layer, I see that it is actually completely compliant:


So it seems like the check designs feature is calculating a transparent colour as if it was opaque.

3 replies

adamsmasher
Figmate
adamsmasher
Figmate
Nov 7, 2026 5:49 PM UTC

Hi, ​@Christina_Helmer. Thanks for your post and glad to see that you didn’t actually apply the change.

 

What layers do you have beneath the transparent background? I’m wondering if Check Designs is using one of those to determine the update. Would you be able to share the file with us (or a copy of the file, if you’d rather not share the original). I can take that to the team to see what might be happening here. Thanks!

Christina_Helmer
Christina_HelmerAuthor
New Participant
Nov 10, 2026 5:03 PM UTC

The colour underneath is full white (on the section it is sitting on top of), the component set has the default set up when you create the set where there is a white background that is hidden.
 


I did some testing and no matter the background that the set sits on top of, it calculates the contrast incorrectly. The moment I turn the background visibility back on, it calculates properly. 

A secondary question I have is when I do turn that visibility back on, it ends up flagging the disabled text (understandably). However, it concerns us if a designer ends up using Check designs and then the disabled text is flagged and is proposing a much darker text. Is there a way to set up our library to have Check designs be more smart?
 

 

Christina_Helmer
Christina_HelmerAuthor
New Participant
Nov 10, 2026 5:05 PM UTC

Is there an email I can send a link to?

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