Comments on: Guide for the color blind http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/ Get the latest on the world's premier character portrait creator. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:24:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Khymera http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-2044 Khymera Tue, 27 May 2008 04:05:56 +0000 http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-2044 wow thats a great idea! :two thumbses up: wow thats a great idea! :two thumbses up:

]]> By: Me http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-567 Me Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:52:26 +0000 http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-567 Two items which may assist those pushing color: ColorZilla for Firefox >> http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/271 Kuler by Adobe >> http://kuler.adobe.com/ Two items which may assist those pushing color:
ColorZilla for Firefox >>
http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/271

Kuler by Adobe >>
http://kuler.adobe.com/

]]> By: Jeff Hebert http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-549 Jeff Hebert Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:02:27 +0000 http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-549 Eric, I feel your pain. Trying to come up with descriptive names for colors that vary by only very small tonal differences was a bear. I didn't want to go with something like "coral" or "beachcomber" that wouldn't really tell a color-blind person what sort of color they were looking at, but I did unfortunately end up with some tongue-twisters like "dark purple peach pink". Or I might possibly have been drunk when I wrote that, I dunno. No, wait -- I don't drink so that can't be it. Give me a few days to come up with a better excuse, I am sure I can think of something ... Eric, I feel your pain. Trying to come up with descriptive names for colors that vary by only very small tonal differences was a bear. I didn’t want to go with something like “coral” or “beachcomber” that wouldn’t really tell a color-blind person what sort of color they were looking at, but I did unfortunately end up with some tongue-twisters like “dark purple peach pink”.

Or I might possibly have been drunk when I wrote that, I dunno. No, wait — I don’t drink so that can’t be it. Give me a few days to come up with a better excuse, I am sure I can think of something …

]]> By: Ashton Jakobson http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-545 Ashton Jakobson Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:28:39 +0000 http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-545 Thats really thoughtful of you Jeff, I'm constantly surprised at the lengths that you are willing to go to, to please your customers. So Thank you. Thats really thoughtful of you Jeff, I’m constantly surprised at the lengths that you are willing to go to, to please your customers. So Thank you.

]]> By: Eric http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-540 Eric Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:39:05 +0000 http://www.heromachine.com/2008/02/17/guide-for-the-color-blind/#comment-540 "Dark purple peach pink"? try saying that 10 times fast. “Dark purple peach pink”? try saying that 10 times fast.

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