A Visual Tool for Creating Custom Branded Buttons on LittleLink

With nearly 2,000 stars and 1,100 forks, LittleLink has been helping users all of the world create sleek and professional profile link pages since 2019. While I've always tried to keep LittleLink approachable and easy to use, even for non-technical users, I still receive a lot of communications around the how to when it comes to creating custom buttons to match your brand identity—especially if you're aiming for accessibility compliance. That's why I built a new visual tool that allows you to design custom branded buttons for your LittleLink page, without writing a single line of code yourself.

Features

Visual editor

• Customize buttons effortlessly with a live preview
• See how your button looks in both light and dark themes
• No code knowledge required—just design, copy, and paste

Real-time accessibility checking

• Automatic WCAG contrast ratio calculations ensure compliance with accessibility standards
• Smart border recommendations improve button visibility across different backgrounds
• Get an accessibility score for both light and dark themes, helping you make informed design choices

Brand-ready customization

• Quickly preview a brand icon alongside your button
• Use a color picker with hex code input for precise color selection
• Generates button code that matches LittleLink's styling
• Follows LittleLink’s button design patterns for consistency

How it works

1. Upload a brand icon
2. Pick your colors—the built-in contrast checker ensures optimal visibility
3. Get an instant preview in both light and dark themes
4. Copy the generated HTML & CSS code and paste it into your LittleLink index.html and brands.css files.
5. Add your icon to images/icons in your LittleLink folder.

Final thoughts

Not all users experience the web in the same way. Ensuring that your buttons meet contrast guidelines means better usability for everyone, including those with visual impairments. The built-in WCAG tool helps you achieve that almost effortlessly, so you don’t have to manually test for contrast issues. I know some branded buttons fail to meet some of the bare minimum accessibility standards, but I've been trying to make strides where I can outside of brand guidelines to help make sure we can get more and more buttons to an acceptable level of accessible.

Whether you’re a creator, streamer, developer, or small business owner, I'm hopeful this button creator for LittleLink helps streamline adding custom buttons while keeping accessibility at the forefront. I'm always looking for new ways to help make LittleLink even easier to use, so keep the feedback coming!

Try it today and make your LittleLink page stand out!