[thelist] color blindness

Mike Migurski mike at cloudfactory.org
Thu Oct 5 14:02:23 CDT 2000


as long as the differences between greens are in brightness as well as
hue, you should be fine. If you were doing this in orange or purple I
would be more concerned, because the majority of colorblind people are
red-green color blind, meaning they can't distinguish differences *along*
the red-green axis (i.e., between red & green, or among different hues of
orange and purple). They actually tend to be more sensitive or at least
equally sensitive as color normal prople to differences among reds or
among greens.

-mike.

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ron Jourard wrote:

>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 00:27:29 -0400
>From: Ron Jourard <ronjourard at home.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: [thelist] color blindness
>
>I'm redesigning and thinking of using a nav bar with different shades
>of green. Apparently (tested on http://vischeck.com/runVischeck.php3),
>these shades look brownish to the 10 per cent of the populace - who
>suffer from color blindness. For those of you who do design work,
>would this sway you to try a different color scheme?
>
>Ron Jourard
>Toronto, Canada
>www.defencelaw.com
>
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