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Bug 179638 - Fonts & Color Profile for the Color Blind
Summary: Fonts & Color Profile for the Color Blind
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Options (show other bugs)
Version: 8.0.1
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P3 normal (vote)
Assignee: Milutin Kristofic
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Reported: 2010-01-18 09:57 UTC by gliesian
Modified: 2016-05-09 18:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description gliesian 2010-01-18 09:57:27 UTC 
Consider putting together a Font's and Colors profile for the color blind.

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp

Note: Colors that are too similar for the color blind may cause confusion in meaning.
Comment 1 gliesian 2014-09-18 17:09:29 UTC 
It could be fancied after what was done for the Dark Nimbus and Dark Metal Look and Feel: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eilMYGIIffk&list=UU_9o1RC9Ty9SmWKTfAqo_4g

Note that here are the color blind colors (http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Colors_%28ggplot2%29/)  in use with a SnazzyMap:

  http://snazzymaps.com/style/114/colorblind-friendly

And this is how the colors were implemented into the Snazzy Map:

  How to create a Snazzy Maps Style in Five Easy Steps 
  http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to-build-snazzy-map-in-five-easy.html


-- Robert

References
  (1) http://www.cookbook-r.com/Graphs/Colors_%28ggplot2%29/
  (2) http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/
Comment 2 gliesian 2015-11-28 02:50:22 UTC 
Colorblind-friendly resources
http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2015/11/colorblind-friendly-resources.html