Colour for the colourblind
It’s amazing the things that people are able to overcome, not least of all blindness. With colour being used for communication so much in day to day life, let alone if your a graphic designer, I can only imagine some of the difficulties one might face.
With the colouradd system, recognizing and even utilizing colour is now possible.
The system proposed is based on the search of the color, not the light color RGB Ð (R, red; G, green and B, blue), because the colorblind person does not possess the correct vision of the colors, nor a tangible knowledge of how their addition works.
The system proposed is based on the pigment color, using as basis the primary colors: BLUE (cyan), RED (magenta), YELLOW.
In addition to primary and secondary colours, symbols for white and black allow users to expand their colour range into the dozens, as well as using shades of grey and specialty symbols for gold and silver.
Very intuitive.
I posted some an article some time ago on Logo designs not for the colour blind, looks like they can use colour after all.
Do you know how far along this system is? How widely accepted it is? What the future plans are?
My husband is significantly (almost entirely) colorblind…. This fascinates me. Thank you for sharing!
Alicia,
The system itself is finished according the site. There is information in their news section of the beginning of its implementation in Europe around June 2009.
It’s been presented in Australia in September, nothing I could see regarding England at this stage I’m afraid.