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Toggle switches in real life can and often are labeled. A toggle pointing to OFF means it’s off. Moving it to on turns it on.

• Nevermark 1y ago
  And a toggle colored/glowing red & green, for off & on, is clear. Boggles my mind how badly many interfaces manage to be.
  • rasur 1y ago
    Unless you're red/green colour-blind, of course ;)
    • Nevermark 1y ago
      Perhaps chartreuse and teal? More seriously, my understanding is that the octopus retina does not have color receptors, just aggregate light, I.e. brightness. But the octopus practically has a sub-brain behind each respective eye, and the eye brains can extract color from the slight lensing differences across frequencies. They are amazing magical creatures. Taking that approach, and some sort of ocular lathe, and we can fix this.
      • kergonath 1y ago
        We can always use more chartreuse.
        • ahartmetz 1y ago
          The name sounds nice, but it's just a muddy green.
          • kergonath 1y ago
            The liqueur is nicer :)
      • eru 1y ago
        > Taking that approach, and some sort of ocular lathe, and we can fix this. Well, you can also just give people different coloured lenses for their two eyes. Eg one that filters out red and one that filters out green.