About Display Lab - Visual QA for Creators
Display Lab is a practical visual quality-assurance workspace for creators, designers, agencies, and teams publishing content across modern screens.
Who we are
Display Lab is an independent browser-based toolkit created by Traian Anghel in 2026. It brings six focused tools into one place: social-image resizing, cropping and compression for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, X, and LinkedIn; safe-zone previews for TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, and YouTube Shorts; WCAG contrast calculations with image sampling; research-based color-vision simulations; physical display measurements with social-content sizing; and private, print-ready static QR code generation. The project is designed for people who need dependable answers without installing a large design application or creating an account before they can test an idea.
We serve thumbnail designers, video editors, social media managers, freelancers, educators, accessibility-minded product teams, and small agencies. Some visitors need one quick contrast ratio. Others review many campaign images and need a repeatable process. Display Lab aims to remain useful in both situations by keeping the basic workflow approachable while offering time-saving PRO capabilities for frequent users.
Why we built Display Lab
A design can be technically beautiful and still fail on the screen where people actually see it. Platform buttons can cover a headline. A television crop can remove a logo. White text can disappear over a bright image. Two chart colors can become indistinguishable for someone with a color-vision deficiency. These are small production details with real consequences: lower click-through rates, confused viewers, inconsistent branding, inaccessible communication, and avoidable revision cycles.
Creators often discover those problems only after publishing because the relevant checks are scattered across platform documentation, accessibility calculators, spreadsheets, and device mockups. Display Lab was built to shorten that gap. It makes physical display properties, interface constraints, luminance differences, and color-dependent meaning visible while changes are still easy to make.
Our mission
Our mission is to help creators prepare correctly sized Facebook and YouTube assets alongside other social destinations, avoid cropped thumbnails, preserve safe content areas, improve unreadable text, identify misleading color choices, and understand display dimensions. We believe useful technical tools should explain the result instead of merely returning a number. That is why Display Lab pairs calculations with live previews, overlays, clear pass or fail states, explicit destination presets, and educational context.
We also believe privacy and speed belong in the product design. Image analysis and PNG, ZIP, and PDF generation happen inside the visitor's browser. This approach provides immediate feedback and avoids unnecessary file transfers. Only PRO entitlement and restoration data require a server record, using a checkout email and generated API key rather than a complex account profile.
Part of the Physics Tools Network
Display Lab is part of the Physics Tools Network, a growing family of focused web utilities. The network also includes wavelab.tools, skymotion.tools, stemhub.tools, and physlab.app. Each project translates a technical or physical concept into an interactive experience that is useful without specialist software.
The shared philosophy is straightforward: start with a real problem, expose the important variables, provide an immediate visual result, and explain enough of the underlying idea for users to make better decisions. Display Lab applies that philosophy to screens, pixels, luminance, aspect ratios, interface overlays, and visual perception.
Development and contact
Display Lab continues to evolve as platforms change their interfaces and creators adopt new formats. We review feedback, improve presets, and refine the tools with an emphasis on clarity and practical value. Results are intended as production guidance, and creators should still verify critical campaigns against current platform requirements before publishing.
Questions, corrections, partnership ideas, and accessibility feedback are welcome. Contact Traian Anghel at traian_an@yahoo.com. Please include the tool or platform involved and enough context to reproduce an issue. Messages are normally reviewed within 24 hours.