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- What is a color blind friendly palette?
- Which color palette should be used for an audience that is sensitive to color blindness?
- Which is the best color theme for a color blind audience?
What is a color blind friendly palette?
Color blind palette
The first rule of making a palette for colorblind – avoid combining red and green. So if you're aiming to create a color blind-friendly palette try to use only two basic hues: blue and red (orange and yellow will also fit). The other colors should be made out of these two hues.
Which color palette should be used for an audience that is sensitive to color blindness?
Use a colorblind-friendly palette when appropriate
For example, blue/orange is a common colorblind-friendly palette. Blue/red or blue/brown would also work. For the most common conditions of CVD, all of these work well, since blue would generally look blue to someone with CVD.
Which is the best color theme for a color blind audience?
Blue (and orange)
Note that the color that looks the most the same for people with normal vision and readers with red-/green-blindness (the most common types of colorblindness) is blue. “Blue is the safest hue.” If you want red- and green-blind readers to perceive color as you do, choose blue.
