The new colour picker to ensure good contrast

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More interesting and useful new features being introduced into Excel Part four of a five-part series of blogs
Last month we blogged in detail about the new GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions in Excel. This month we have 4 lighter new features: focus cells, colour pickers, Draw and Hold and some new templates. More interesting and useful new features being introduced into Excel A new (and very clear) way to show which cell has the focus Draw and hold - getting Excel to improve your artwork The new colour picker to ensure good contrast (this blog) New templates for generating sample data, QR codes and Python help

More interesting and useful new features being introduced into Excel

Part four of a five-part series of blogs

Last month we blogged in detail about the new GROUPBY and PIVOTBY functions in Excel. This month we have 4 lighter new features: focus cells, colour pickers, Draw and Hold and some new templates.

More interesting and useful new features being introduced into Excel
A new (and very clear) way to show which cell has the focus
Draw and hold - getting Excel to improve your artwork
The new colour picker to ensure good contrast (this blog)
New templates for generating sample data, QR codes and Python help

Posted by Andy Brown on 06 December 2024

When choosing colours, you can now limit your palette to colours which would offer a high degree of contrast. For example in the screen-shot below a nerd wants to change the background colour of a cell:

We want to make this number 857 stand out.

If you choose to change any colour in Excel, you'll now have the option of restricting your choice to high-contrast colours:

If you choose the option shown you'll see a restricted set of colours.

Here's one example of what this might give:

We've successfully implemented colours which make this number contrast well with its surrounding cells.

I'd imagine that this feature is useful for those designing workbooks which can be easily used by people with colour perception disabilities.

Parts of this blog
More interesting and useful new features being introduced into Excel A new (and very clear) way to show which cell has the focus Draw and hold - getting Excel to improve your artwork The new colour picker to ensure good contrast (this blog) New templates for generating sample data, QR codes and Python help