# Algorithmic Theming Engines: Building Self-Correcting Color Systems With contrast-color()–

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- Published: 2026-08-25T23:30:00+00:00
- Author: News Team

Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After
years of design system tooling, availability linters, and JavaScript libraries, 
absolutely nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need much better libraries. We required
much better CSS. ‘contrast-color()’ is that better CSS.  [Source](https://smashingmagazine.com/2026/05/building-self-correcting-color-systems-contrast-color/)

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