[plug] vim colorscheme for colour blind people?

[Matthew Lambie]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 09:39 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> I think colour blindness can be highly individual so you may need to
> come up with your own scheme.  I use the light yellow background and
> find some colours almost useless on it, but its generally easier on the
> eyes. There is a file on most unix/linux systems that gives colour names
> to rgb mapping (called of all things, rgb.txt).  Another useful tool is
> to search the web for "web safe pallets" and experiment with what works
> for you.

Indeed. Thanks for the tips.

> My exposure to this was a researcher who needed to look at images that
> are traditionally shades of green and red - the two colours that cause
> the most problems.  The software allowed the pallet to be remapped, but
> his case was so bad we ended up using shades of grey!  google for colour
> blindness and there are a number site that show the traditional blot
> images so you can get an idea yourself if it affects  you (/disclaimer,
> see an optometrist etc before accepting such things as gospel ...)
> 
> ~ 15% (figures vary) of the (mostly) male population are colour blind to
> some degree.  The traffic light problem comes up occasionally, but that
> is one of the reasons the lights are spatially separated (try doing that
> in a terminal!)

I had always thought the light problem was an urban myth. You're right,
the shades that most people have difficulty with are green and red
(especially next to each other) but I know I have no problem with
lights, and I have quite "bad" colour blindness (according to both the
optometrist I saw a month ago, and the Navy doctor who took 8 minutes to
end a possible career some 8 or 9 years ago).

> There are some jobs where colour blindness is a severe handicap: think
> electricians with red/black wires, electronics and colour coded
> components, painters (I was tested many years back and had to pass
> before I was taken on as an apprentice) etc.

I used to get the purple and black crayons mixed up at school as a kid.
Last weekend I had lots of hassles patching my patch panel - the orange
and the brown were very similar, though the green was clearly different.
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