---
title: "DevZap for Designers"
description: "Figma can't show how a typeface, color, or gradient really behaves on a live page. DevZap answers in the browser — real fonts, real contrast, real screen DPI."
url: https://devzap.io/use-cases/designer/
role: "Product / UI / UX designer"
---

# DevZap for Designers

> See your work as a real browser would render it. Pick a font, picker a color, ship the spec.

Figma can't show how a typeface, color, or gradient really behaves on a live page. DevZap answers in the browser — real fonts, real contrast, real screen DPI.

## Pain points

### Figma colors and browser colors don't match

Figma defaults to Display P3, browsers (mostly) default to sRGB. The same hex looks different and you find out at QA time.

### Picking a font means committing to it in code

Trying a font usually requires a developer to wire up a Google Fonts import. By the time you see the preview, the iteration loop is hours long.

### Accessibility checks are an afterthought

A pretty design that fails WCAG ships, gets shamed, gets refactored. The cost of getting contrast right at design time is near-zero; getting it wrong is expensive.

## Workflows

### Test a typography pairing on a real page

1. Open Font Pairing with your candidate heading + body fonts
2. Compare against existing live sites to gauge density
3. Copy the @import + CSS snippet for handoff

### Verify your palette passes WCAG AA

1. Plug each text/background pair into Contrast Checker
2. Adjust lightness in OKLCH until everything passes
3. Document the final values in your design tokens

### Build a depth-aware shadow scale

1. Use Box Shadow Generator to design 3 elevation levels
2. Stack 2-layer shadows for realistic depth
3. Copy the declarations into your design tokens

## Recommended free tools

- https://devzap.io/tools/color-converter.md
- https://devzap.io/tools/contrast-checker.md
- https://devzap.io/tools/css-gradient-generator.md
- https://devzap.io/tools/box-shadow-generator.md
- https://devzap.io/tools/font-pairing.md
- https://devzap.io/tools/tailwind-colors.md

## Recommended extension features

- https://devzap.io/features/font-changer.md
- https://devzap.io/features/css-inspector.md