Random light colour generator
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Generates light colours for backgrounds, panels and anything that needs dark text on it.
How to use the random light colour generator
Light backgrounds are the default for a reason; they suit reading in bright ambient light, which is most of the time, but pure white has the same problem as pure black in the other direction. A very light tinted background reduces the glare of a bright screen in a dark room and gives a page some character. The practical constraint is that the lighter the background, the more contrast options you have for text, which is why light palettes are easier to make accessible than dark ones.
Questions
Pure white glares in a dark room. A very light tint reduces that and gives the page some character.
Generally yes. The lighter the background, the more text colours give usable contrast.
Not necessarily. A palette generator arranges hues; it says nothing about contrast. Check any text-on-background pair against the contrast checker before shipping it.
Hex for anything going into a design tool, HSL when you want to adjust lightness by hand, and OKLCH when you need two colours to look equally light; it is the only one of the four where that number means what you expect.
A pastel has more saturation. These are lighter and quieter, closer to a tinted white.