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Other perceptions of color

redgreenblindness

About 8% of men are colorblind, some women too are colourblind but the rate of incidence is much lower in women, only 1 in 200 women are colorblind. There are an estimated 350 million people in the world who are colourblind. Even more mindblogging, there are many people who are colorblind that don't know it, after all if you have never had the experience of red, why would you miss it?

Given that I have discussed earlier the importance of color, perhaps it might seem contradictory advice to say if you want your work to be more effective, color is not the only way you should encode certain kinds of information.

If you make work for the public sector for example you will likely encounter very strict requirements on accessibility and you will have to produce work that can easily be understood by colorblind people as well.

When you design you should also keep in mind the question: is colour the only way to discern information in my work? are there any other cues that could help someone with a different vision ability interpret the work? Perhaps using shapes, icons, textures, directionality, or overlays can be good ways of adding additional clues. Creating designs that include clourblind people is no just about tweaking palettes, although that would already go a long way.

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