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Hostile Colors: Generate color palettes with poor accessibility
- charcircuit 5y agoThese are just unreadable in general. I'd prefer if normal people could still read the text.
- lloydatkinson 5y ago"normal people"
- charcircuit 5y agopeople with normal vision
- bruce343434 5y agoperhaps you shouldn't take it offensively. Sufficient vision is simply the norm, that's what normal means.
- chownie 5y agoThen the author meant normal vision, not normal people. In fact, the author already happily corrected themselves — forty-five minutes before you chimed in!
- bruce343434 5y agoSo how would you have preferred it to be phrased? "people with normal vision" or "normal visioned people"? vs the more terse "normal people" for which the context of vision can be easily inferred.
- chownie 5y agoProbably "people with normal vision", because it's the typicality of the person's visual acuity that's topical, not that person's normality.
- 123pie123 5y agoI'm getting... "hostilecolors.com has expired"
- unbanned 5y agoMy go to is yellow on lime green
- judge2020 5y agoThe old IP address this resolved to was 76.76.21.21, so you can load it by editing /etc/hosts (also nulling the IPv6 Google addresses): 76.76.21.21 hostilecolors.com :: hostilecolors.com
- dmitriid 5y agoWouldn't be surprised if it's created by people who are responsible for chart colors across all of Google's tech products: Google Console, Datastudio etc. "Here, have barely distinguishable shades of blue", or "in your charts you've setup errors will be blue, and successes will be ... also blue"