Alan Bloom wrote:
The issue is not aesthetics, but rather utility. Something like 9% of
American males are red-green color blind (by far the most common type of
color blindness). There are certain colors, and certain combinations of
colors, that are very difficult for them to discern. It makes sense for
manufacturers to choose colors that can be seen easily both by people
with normal color vision and those of us with some degree of red-green
color blindness.
I am monochromatic [pretty rare unless you're from a remote island in
the S. Pacific I can't remember the name of -- I'm not from there and
I'm pretty sure none of my ancestors are either]. I can't see the
numerals on my K3 keypad which my wife tells me are red on a dark gray
button. I can discern all the rest of the legends. I've figured out
where the keypad keys are however so I'm not going to file an ADA suit
against Elecraft :-) I do have much better vision in very dim light
than all the rest of you.
Please don't ask me, "What colors can you see?" I can see all of them.
I just can't name them, and lots of them all look alike to me. I began
to realize I wasn't discerning colors well when everyone had a lot of
names for colors that looked the same to me. I realized I was
monochromatic when color TV appeared and it looked just like B&W. I've
run across some pretty difficult web sites. Windoze Default color
scheme works OK for me.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2009
- www.cqp.org
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