> On May 23, 2016, at 6:43 PM, Jeff Kelley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As a colorblind developer, this isn’t really an issue. The vast majority of 
> colorblind people can discern colors. As long as the IDE allows you to 
> customize which colors it displays, you can find a palette that will work 
> with your eyes (for my type of colorblindness, for instance, I have 
> difficulty differentiating blue and purple, so I wouldn’t use both in my 
> syntax highlighting color scheme). As long as color isn’t the only thing 
> differentiating on-screen elements, adding colors to syntax highlighting is 
> beneficial even to us colorblind developers. :)
> 

I believe in eclipse you can choose the font, which inludes setting its color.

> 
> Jeff Kelley
> 
> [email protected] | @SlaunchaMan | jeffkelley.org
> 
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>>> On May 23, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Krystof Vasa via swift-evolution 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The problem can also be easily mitigated by having the IDE use a different 
>>> color to display a variable based on where it was defined (eclipse come to 
>>> mind as an example). This is something the brain naturally notices without 
>>> paying any conscious attention.
>> 
>> Tell that to the colorblind :)
>> 
>>> 
>>>> -- E
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