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3 color scheme resistant to color blinds

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coco
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Hi all!

I'm developing a game that MUST use 3 colors. I'd like them to be seen correctly by most of the color blind gamers and, at the same time, choose them so that they look nice to all gamers (this is, trying not to use brown, white or gray).

I've been using yellow-red-dark blue.

What could be the best combination in your opinion?

Thank you.

ReneWiersma
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I once had a teacher who was

I once had a teacher who was color-blind and could only distinguish between the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. This is very rare. I'm colorblind myself, I have a hard time distinguishing the colors brown/red/green, especially if they are of the same "lightness". For example, I might not see the difference between lightbrown and lightgreen, but I do see the difference between lightbrown and darkgreen (but I might not be able to tell you which one is the green one and which is the brown one). It's also easier in daylight than with lamplight.

But you can't really go much wrong with red, yellow and blue.

ReneWiersma
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I once had a teacher who was

I once had a teacher who was color-blind and could only distinguish between the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. This is very rare. I'm colorblind myself, I have a hard time distinguishing the colors brown/red/green, especially if they are of the same "lightness". For example, I might not see the difference between lightbrown and lightgreen, but I do see the difference between lightbrown and darkgreen (but I might not be able to tell you which one is the green one and which is the brown one). It's also easier in daylight than with lamplight.

But you can't really go much wrong with red, yellow and blue.

SiddGames
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Red Yellow Blue

Yeah, can't go wrong with that palette I think.

I wrote about my color blindness on my blog not too long ago.

http://jirel.com/press/?p=143

InvisibleJon
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Colorblind Palette

http://www.invisible-city.com/images/359.jpg

This image was referred to on a previous BGDF discussion thread. I don't remember hat thread or what the original source is for the image.

Kactus
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This may help

A simple test of whether any set of colours will be alright for completely colourblind people is to put the colours you want to use into an image, and then convert it to grayscale. If you can still see a difference, it should be fine :)

Alternatively, you can add differently shaped symbols, but that could be hard on some board game pieces.

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