Colorblindness and Interfaces
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- utopian0
A good friend of mine was a web developer as well as being color blind. He particularly designed user interfaces that were high in contrast...
- Gordy220
Kind of. I tend to make a monochrome css stylesheet to check it works alright without any color.
Also, things like having an icon as well as color when giving an error message or something (think having an X icon as well as a red BG when denoting a negative)
- Mr_Mxyzptlk0
No download, just add URL:
- Don't wait until it's built, check well before then.seeessess
- doublespaced0
There are so many types of color blindness, it's really hard to take it into account. From my understanding, it's probably a good practice to make sure you don't make huge differentiations with blue/green or red/orange because those are common cases. Contrary to what most people think, color blindness doesn't mean that one cannot see color, just that they have trouble seeing the difference between two close colors. Kinda like having a color go out on an RGB display.
- dawplucker0
I am colorblind but (as far as i know) i never really had any problems viewing websites and i don't think it's because designers take that in account.
@atomholc cool site i wanted to make a something like that but never really understood how to do that (maybe because i am coloblind ;-)
- October0
im colourblind as well.
someone mentioned high contrast earlier and i agree to an extent.
i tend to design with different shades of one colour with a high contrast colour as a highlight. similar to qbn using shades of grey and red for their logo.make sure you have enough contrast when using red and green together and also lime green and pale yellows or orange. i hate logos with these colours together as it can be difficult for me to tell the difference if their shades are too close.
- ditto. partly why I moved into development though.fugged