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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Please add RGB sliders or input boxes to all color selection areas.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#Digital_representations for readers which need more info on RGB )

couple reasons:

1. I'm partially color-blind and all those little color boxes blend together in my eyes.

[Player2]: "You actually chose THAT hair color??"
[Me]: "What? It's red isn't it?"
[Player2]: "No, it's dog-TRIBBLE brown."
[Me]: "Son of a...."


2. Lets people get the color they want, not just a vaguely close shade of it.


If RGB "won't work" with whatever coding you used please add "basic 8" colors to most selections.

Thanks for reading.
Post edited by baddmoonrizin on

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Copy+paste from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Diagnosis

    The Ishihara color test, which consists of a series of pictures of colored spots, is the test most often used to diagnose red-green color deficiencies. A figure (usually one or more Arabic digits) is embedded in the picture as a number of spots in a slightly different color, and can be seen with normal color vision, but not with a particular color defect. The full set of tests has a variety of figure/background color combinations, and enable diagnosis of which particular visual defect is present. The anomaloscope, described above, is also used in diagnosing anomalous trichromacy.

    However, the Ishihara color test is criticized[according to whom?] for containing only numerals and thus not being useful for young children, who have not yet learned to use numerals. It is often stated[who?] that it is important to identify these problems as soon as possible and explain them to the children to prevent possible problems and psychological traumas. For this reason, alternative color vision tests were developed using only symbols (square, circle, car).

    Most clinical tests are designed to be fast, simple, and effective at identifying broad categories of color blindness. In academic studies of color blindness, on the other hand, there is more interest in developing flexible tests to collect thorough datasets, identify copunctal points, and measure just noticeable differences.[26]

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Ishihara_9.png/180px-Ishihara_9.png
    (If you can't clearly see the number you should probly get tested. There is variation between computer monitors so don't panic out-right if you can't.)

    Color blindness is not the swapping of colors by the observer — grass is never red, and stop signs are never green. The color impaired do not learn to call red "green" and vice versa. However, dichromats often confuse red and green items. For example, they may find it difficult to distinguish a Braeburn apple from a Granny Smith and in some cases, the red and green of a traffic light without other clues (e.g., shape or location).

    Anomalous Trichromats tend to learn to use texture and shape clues and so are often able to spot camouflage clothing, netting, and paint that has been designed to deceive individuals with color-normal vision.[1]

    Traffic light colors are confusing to some dichromats as there is insufficient apparent difference between the red/amber traffic lights, and that of sodium street lamps; also the green can be confused with a grubby white lamp. This is a risk factor on high-speed undulating roads where angular cues can't be used. British Rail color lamp signals use more easily identifiable colors: the red is really blood red, the amber is quite yellow and the green is a bluish color. Most British road traffic lights are mounted vertically on a black rectangle with a white border (forming a "sighting board") and so dichromats simply look for the position of the light within the rectangle — top, middle or bottom.

    Color blindness very rarely means complete monochromatism. In almost all cases, color blind people retain blue-yellow discrimination, and most color blind individuals are anomalous trichromats rather than complete dichromats. In practice this means that they often retain a limited discrimination along the red-green axis of color space, although their ability to separate colors in this dimension is severely reduced.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Common problem colors (within the basic 8):

    yellow-orange
    red-green
    red-brown
    blue-purple
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Well, no one seems to be against this. I guess that's something anyway.

    Would a kind soul with good eyes be willing to grid out the uniform color selections and give coordinates for:
    yellow, orange, red, green, blue, purple, and brown or their closest matches?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    KPX7873 wrote:
    Wow, wtf?! I didn't know I was color blind, but the picture there there's cleary 21 for me. Not 74...this comes at a shock. :eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2010
    Wow, wtf?! I didn't know I was color blind, but the picture there there's cleary 21 for me. Not 74...this comes at a shock. :eek:

    Like I said somewhere up there: can't be 100% sure without getting tested by a doctor, but I wouldn't worry about it unless it is affecting your life. Just something to be aware of.

    It's also genetic so if a teacher ever tries to have your kid held back because he/she called an unlabeled green color dot red...
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