The shapes are the secondary indicators.
Most color blind people don't even know they're colorblind. They use
other indicators — shapes and value, mostly — as indicators and think
that's what everyone else sees. Note the differences between a Yield
sign and a Stop sign. The words, the color, and the shape are all
different.
Making sure that a color/shape combination is consistent is the key.
-J
On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Stefano Tacchi wrote:
Are you sure these colors are color blind safe? they cannot be
confusable colors.
On 7/30/09, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
2009/7/30 Joshua A.C. Newman <[email protected]>:
Using colored shapes to differentiate would be much better (e.g.
iChat's
status markers)
Right - red circle for GPL, blue square for OFL, orange triangle
for MIT?
--
Stefano
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