Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows!

For those who missed it, Slashdot just recently ran a piece on colour blindness and it's effects on games.

Buried (well, at least when I looked at it) in the comments were a couple of links that I found interesting. The first was a link to a company which sells charts that show what the web safe colour table looks like to someone with deuteranopia, a common form of red-green colour blindness. Unfortunately, since they're a commercial entity, the free images they supply aren't that useful but, as someone who's not colour blind, they certainly give you an idea of what colours work and what don't.

The second one (and I find it even more interesting) is an organisation (?) called Vischeck who provide a free service that allows you to view images or websites under three different forms of colour blindness. (Deuteranope — a form of red-gree colour blindness, Protanope — another form of red-green, and Tritanope — a form of blue-yellow colour-blindness) They even provide plugins for Photoshop and a Java-based image suite called ImageJ so that you can test them out on your own machine.

I personally think this website looks kind of odd with the purple sidebar, but at least it's readable.