[plug] vim colorscheme for colour blind people?

Alex Polglaze apolglaze at book-keepingnetwork.com.au
Thu Jun 16 21:42:34 WST 2005


>>~ 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).
> 

That's why traffic lights are not pure green, they have a very definite blue 
tinge to help people with colur blindness.

Alex




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