So, I've been playing around with the colors and such today and after
* having replaced the blue with Lindsey's suggestion;
* removing orange from the "default" palette,
* played around with some super serious color-blindness tools,
I have come to the conclusion that our remaining "problem" color is the green
shade (#008740) that I love so dearly. It just isn't working when you switch to any
of the R/G colorblindness tools.
So I'm working on a new shade. This is more of a pain in the ass than one would
think: you can either work entirely in "colorblind" mode (thus not seeing the
real work) or work in "real" mode, and thus keep having to switch.
I've yet to find a good tool that will tell me straight up if there's enough
contrast between the two.
At this point, I think we may have to just bite the bullet and pick a red and a green
that are sub-optimal in this regard and then write up some strongly worded rules about the
usage of the two colors with each other.
I found this bad-ass little app:
http://colororacle.org/
That sits in your toolbar and is "always ready" for tri-level switching (proto,
deutro, trinopia). Photoshop has proof colors for the first two, but not the third, so
it's useful.
I also found this wonderful paper:
http://colororacle.org/resources/2007_JennyKelso_ColorDesign_lores.pdf
I'm wondering if we shouldn't step outside of our group a bit. There *has* to be
someone at the foundation with either proto or deutro; maybe we can enlist them to help
us.
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