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Remember, about 25% of men are partially red-green color blind. So, a 'fire engine red' such as in the usual banner at HN such men can see, but lots of 'red' i
by NY_USA_Hacker 16y ago
Remember, about 25% of men are partially red-green color blind. So, a 'fire engine red' such as in the usual banner at HN such men can see, but lots of 'red' in mixtures of colors register as black. An emerald green can be seen, but in lots of mixtures the greens don't register. So, some light greens register as gray.
I'm such a man and mostly can't read that page.
- natrius 16y agoThe text on the page is actually gray (#444).
- NY_USA_Hacker 16y agoRight! I have pixel color picker and could have discovered that!
- jiaaro 16y agoI agree on the importance of accessibility but just wanted to make a note that the only colors on that page are the glowing effect around the form. the rest of the page actually is grey. The entire design COULD use a little bump in contrast to aid readability though
- NY_USA_Hacker 16y agoOkay! But, me, I couldn't tell the rest was just gray! I assumed you had lots of nice reds and greens in there!
- scoot 16y agoSo why say you can't read it when you can read it as well as the rest of us? Overstating your case just makes you look... well, not smart.
- knowtheory 16y agoMainly it makes him look color-blind, and used to people not designing accessible visual experiences. The fact that he found the site difficult to read (like everyone else), he attributed to the most likely cause of such experiences in the past, i.e. his color-blindness, rather than the fact that the design is just really hard to read. That the design is so difficult to read is done mainly to make the form pop out by contrast. It's a cool effect, but there's no way i'd deploy that for mass consumption. It's a piece of artwork in it's current state (albeit a really cool one).
- kaylarose 16y agoEdit: Sorry, other people beat me to it. See other replies re:text colors. However I agree about the contrast, I checked on my external dev monitor (vs. my super bright MBP screen) and the contrast could definitely use some work.
- biot 16y agoA bit of an aside, but to my eyes the HN banner is better described as 'burnt orange' or 'dark carrot' rather than fire engine red.
- NY_USA_Hacker 16y agoI'm "partial red-green" color blind. So, saturated, primary reds and greens I see as distinct. But if start to mix colores with some reds and greens, then I can see two colors as the same that other people see as distinct. Partial red-green color blindness is very well understood. Nearly all colors that should be distinct still are but, yes, apparently I don't see fire engines and carrots just the same!
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