Color Blind about cookiemonster HOT 38 CLOSED

Sure, though what colors do you think I should change the following to?

Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
Red
Purple
Gray

It shouldn't be too hard, except I don't know which colors to change and what the new colors should be.

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There are online simulators to see how colors look with different kinds of color blindness (protanopia is the most common):
http://www.etre.com/tools/colourblindsimulator/
Also, various "color design guides" are available, e.g. this one:
http://colororacle.org/design.html

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Ah, thanks though I was semi hoping someone would just do the work for me in terms of telling me what the new colors are, lol.

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Just give me a few days and I can come up with new colors for you :) Im color blind so I think I would do alright

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Great, thanks!

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I was messing around with the colors a bit. and I think changing the lime to actual green, the orange to red and the red to dark red (rgb: 127,0,0) should fix the problem for now :)

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Okay thanks! I'll add this to next release, assuming beta doesn't take forever to get to live!

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Thanks! as the colors really make it hard for me to use the add-on, would it be possible to make a small release just for the color changes? I would really appreciate it...

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Hmm, sure, though now looking more into it, it's more complex than I first thought since there are static elements on the screen I don't constant update (for performance). Luckily not that much more complex. Also another thing, I can only update the colors that I've added with the add on, not all the colors in CC. Is that okay? To update all colors in CC would require a lot more work.

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The colors of the normal CC are OK, but thanks for the offer :) I can help you update the code if you like me to

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Thanks for that offer, but I don't think this is complex enough to require that much time, lol. It's mostly CSS of global variables I've already set that need to be change, so not too hard. I'm just now verifying that indeed those colors work, aka creating a temp web page with the original colors/your chosen colors and then using the simulator @darkstar posted. Hope my verifying doesn't offend you...

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No offense taken

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Great! Well hopefully you can wait at most a day. I'm not sure I'll be able to finish this morning as I really should be sleeping at the moment, lol.

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Thanks! There is no harsh, dont worry :)

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I tried using the colors you suggested but I don't think it works good enough for all three types of color blindness. I tried finding colors that would work, but I don't have enough colors to make it work yet. I need more time to figure out what colors to use.

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What about adding an option to change the default colors to costum colors? Whould it be hard to implement?

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That would be easier, as then I don't have this wall of what colors to use, lol

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lol. Would you need help with the coding of such feature?

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I was using the colors suggested by the Wikipedia here, but that's only 3 colors. I was trying to use other shades of gray with black being one of them, but black and white shouldn't be used, I think. I technically don't need help coding it, as it is just some more config to add, but this is the second time you asked, so do you really want to help?

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I wouldn't mind helping you coding, but if you don't like me too it's no big deal. Another idea I had was instead of creating one color plate for all of the color blind types, adding 4 color plates: the default one, and one for each main type of color blindness. I think that would make it easier to choose colors for each plate.

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Hmm, that's a great idea as then I have more flexibility on what colors to choose. On the flip side, allowing one to choose any color is even better. I guess the biggest problem in that choice is to make a color wheel to choose the color... As for you helping, I know eventually if this becomes big enough, I should really have other people help out, but I do like the fact that I know what all the code does (or at least most of it, lol). So basically, I don't know? If you really want to help, I guess it's fine?

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It's ok, I know that feeling. If you change your mind you can ask me for help. If it's ok with you, I can try and make a color wheel for you to use, so you can check the code before you add it to the add-on.

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apparently there is in HTML5 which I think will do the job just fine.

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that sounds fine, color wheel away! So HTML 5 has a color wheel built in? If so, I see what you mean, not much coding to do, lol.

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yes indeed :) I think the coding using this element will be very easy

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Yep, I just saw it. Very easy indeed. Thanks for the help. You motivated me to finish this real soon, lol. Barring any interruptions, I may have it up soon.

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Great! You can contact me in the feature for any help you need,

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Cool, thanks!

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According to this, IE and Safari doesn't support the color input =/. I may need to write a custom one.

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:/ I made a small color chooser based on the which according to this site works on every browser, would you like me to send it to you?

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Is it jscolor?

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no, an html/js code I made in the last 30 minutes

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oh your message got screwed up, I didn't see you type in "input type=range" part

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Well I feel bad that you spent 30 mins on it, but unless it's better than jscolor, I'll probably go with jscolor =/.

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don't feel bad, I had fun :) if there is a problem with using jscolor tell me.

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Whew, that took a lot more changes than I thought. Well I've refactored the code that now it's easy to change the colors. Now to add the option to change it...

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Added in Version 1.0465.12

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that's amazing! Thanks!

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