Friendly Colorblind colors

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Friendly Colorblind colors

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Post: # 10864Unread post Rajun Gardener
Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:42 pm

We will be updating the site soon and I'm trying to be colorblind friendly by having an option for members to select from a few different color theme options. You won't be able to select each color yourself after it's installed but I can change colors to certain parts of the forum when I design it. Help me design it for you who are colorblind or have bad eyesight.

Here's the areas I can change, it would be better for me if you could use the color chart and give me the codes from this chart or any other chart you may know of. https://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/RGB_Color.html

Here's the tool I use to make the changes, once I get some input I can make a change and show it here before we go ant farther.
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Post: # 10882Unread post Shule
Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:40 pm

The only thing that's hard to read for me, currently, particularly, is the black text on the red background. I can read it, but it's not comfortable. With the colors inverted (I invert them a lot), I can hardly see it at all, though.

I would suggest changing the black text to something light (like white, pink, cyan, etc.) Really, anything that isn't dark. White (#FFFFFF) seems the most conservative and obvious choice, but I'm fine with other light colors.
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Re: Friendly Colorblind colors

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Post: # 10898Unread post worth1
Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:26 pm

Please dont mess with it too much I like it for the most part the way it is.
No pink background please.
I am speaking from the point of view of someone that is total color blind.
Not me but a brother in law.
Which is shades of grey white and black.
The color blind person will see black letters on a medium to dark grey when you use red background and black letters.
Experiment with this in mind and you will come up with something usable.
I know everyone knows this.
Just saying. :)
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Post: # 10904Unread post Rajun Gardener
Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:38 pm

I'm not making this the forum color, this will be an option to change color schemes to make it easy on CB people. That's why I asked CB to help me help them.
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Post: # 10907Unread post worth1
Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:43 pm

Rajun Gardener wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:38 pm I'm not making this the forum color, this will be an option to change color schemes to make it easy on CB people. That's why I asked CB to help me help them.
Oh Ok. :)
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