3 ms·
Do you have abnormal color vision or anything like that? Similar issues outside of code?
by jonnycomputer 5y ago
Do you have abnormal color vision or anything like that? Similar issues outside of code?
- 4ad 5y agoI don't know, I don't think so. I am very sensitive to the color and quality of light, for example I imediately see the metameric failure caused by crappy (99%) of LED lights and I spent months finding some good LED-based lightbulbs. One hypothesis that I came out with might be that advertising competes for my attention using lots of colors, and I have become very experienced in tuning out any kind of advertising. I don't consciously associate colored text with advertising, but for whatever reason the mechanism seems to be active in my brain. Sometimes color highlighting actually serves as an objectively beneficial function, for example colored grep output or colored diff output. Even in those cases I still have to turn colors off, otherwise I simply skip past the important bits of the text that are highlighted.