Creating accessible color contrast A while back, I wrote about how color blindness can affect the implied meaning in our usage of color. The use of stoplight colors for status is less meaningful if your eyes aren’t helping you distinguish between red and green. We got around this problem through the use of meaningful shapes…
Tag: color
Color Vision Deficiency
When discussing design, color is often treated as a purely emotional or psychological aspect, and it can be hard to quantify. There are a few places where certain uses of color convey meaning in an easily understood way. A group of colors almost universally understood are Stoplight or Traffic Signal colors. My daughter would sing…
Mastering Hexadecimal color codes
Let’s understand what those 6 character codes we’ve been putting in our spec and CSS actually mean.