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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2294535" data-attributes="member: 4682">Speaking as a colorblind person  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> (there are multiple varieties), but the large majority of those who are colorblind can recognize colors pretty well. Having large stretches of a single color is very easy to distinguish. But placing small splotches of colors adjacent to each other that a particular colorblind person, the colorblind person can't easily distinguish which is which.So a single red word (for those red/green/ colorblind), in a row of black text is easy. But have a row of text that alternates every word red, then green, then red, etc. and you will have a colorblind person probably getting eyestrain. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Myself, I'm red/green and blue/gray colorblind. But I'm only a single person. My colorblindness is bad enough that I'm forbidden from being a pilot or electrician. There are a vast swath of military careers that I can't take either.I've done cartographic work, creating publish quality maps, and there is a resource many of us use called <a href="http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta2.html" target="_blank">Color Brewer</a>. It is run by a university and it is based on work funded by the National Science Foundation. I HIGHLY recommend any publisher check it out if they are concerned with issues with publishing colors and colorblindness, photocopy friendliness, LCD friendliness, laptop LCD friendly, CRT friendliness, and color printing friendliness. You can ger CMYK values, RGB values, and more. The site is aimed towards cartographers and thematic map production. The point of Color Brewer is to show which specific patterns of colors work best in for certain cases of color viewing.I must say, that it is rare to hear (the first time in my life actually just now) a publisher express concern for the colorblind. Bravo!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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