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Yodel | 12:06 Fri 01st Sep 2006 | Technology
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Can anyone please advise what are the best colours to use when designing a GUI application that contains colour-coded information. I wanted to use red/yellow/green but a colleague who is colour-blind cannot distinguish the green and yellow at all. Is there a GUI standard for this?
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Avatar Image OBonio
I'm not sure about desktop applications but I'm sure the same ideas apply :

http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/

Accessibility is the key word here. And it's a bit of a pain... :o(
15:41 Fri 01st Sep 2006
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Essentially just go for colours with the most contrast between them. Red, Green and Blue sounds good to me.

Of course, that's for content colouring, such as bar charts. Not a good idea to use such bold colours for a general colour scheme.
17:17 Fri 01st Sep 2006
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Are there websites by and for colour blind people? Surely they'd give an inkling as to what colour schemes to use.
18:33 Fri 01st Sep 2006
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Why not use Google with "colur blind and website:"

this is a start:-

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/

01:04 Sat 02nd Sep 2006

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