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Bad signs. Fatal flaw: the red / green bars have no context because the the hours & days text is unreadable except up close and hour/days change from sign to s
by radley 12y ago
Bad signs.
Fatal flaw: the red / green bars have no context because the the hours & days text is unreadable except up close and hour/days change from sign to sign.
EDIT: also impossible to read when driving / stopping by in your car. You'd have to roll down your window or maybe even get out to read everything.
- forrestthewoods 12y agoI think these new signs are strictly better than the old signs. If you can make them more betterer then I and the rest of the world would love to see it. Someone random from the internet redesigning signs is how these came about. Let's see what you got.
- tomkinstinch 12y agoI'm not the parent poster, but I am colorblind. The green and red bars of these signs are difficult to discriminate for me, and I suspect many others. The design could easily be improved by using different colors, since ~10% of males have some color vision deficiency. Few people have deficiency in their short-wavelength cones (blue), so blue/yellow could work, or better still would be simple black and white, or some sort of spatial modulation difference (solid/striped or border/no border).
- comex 12y agoSo the stripes are too faint to make the red areas sufficiently distinct? The obvious problem with an alternate color scheme is that it wouldn't instantly convey 'good or bad' in the way green and red do (to people with adequate color perception).
- tomkinstinch 12y agoThe stripes are too close together, and the contrast is low. They're subtle up close, and difficult to see from a distance. If the spatial frequency were lower (larger stripes) and if they used alternating lines of white and the current color, it might be alright.
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