*Named Color Palettes for the Color Blind*

Updated 2010

Costume

Standard Palette

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Standard Palette PNG

Skin Color

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Skin Color PNG

Powers Customization

Bright

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I will update this post as I complete the new palettes for powers customization.

Original Post:

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It's like walking into a friggen' home depo

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Part of my brain is going "Good work!" and part is going, "If they're color-blind, how will they know whether Dark Magenta goes with Steamed Broccoli?"

I'm going to stay with "Good work!"

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Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.

So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.

Thanks for the good job!

Seriously though, they're color blind not stupid. Even if you couldn't tell the difference and the sky looked green to you, folks would say nope the sky is blue.

With red green color blindness, you mostly see shades of yellow and blue but not (obviously) green and red. So having a name to a color will help you pick out the exact color you want. Prevents you from mistaking green for blue and so forth. Most of different types of color blindness seem to see some shades of blue and yellow.

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Hopefully those who have color blindness will find this helpful.

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I'm color blind, and I find it very helpful. Granted, it looks like you got some of these names from Crayola, but I get the jist. I'm going to refer to this now when making costumes.

Thanks alot!!

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Hopefully those who have color blindness will find this helpful.

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I'm color blind, and I find it very helpful. Granted, it looks like you got some of these names from Crayola, but I get the jist. I'm going to refer to this now when making costumes.

Thanks alot!!

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I'm very glad you find it useful.


As for the names: I thought the same thing when making it, but I assure you they didn't come from crayola.
Would there be any other type of naming procedure I could use that would make it more helpful?

A lot of the names are from my brain and others from paint online color choosers some from sites that lists color names. Mostly I tried to look up things that would describe the color or at least you'd have some type of idea what color it resembles.

Let's just say that late at night your brain starts to give up on you and you start just calling things as you see them...hence the whole row of varying Sky Blues

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Ooh! Bippy's 'stained pomegranate' - Martha Stewart would be proud!

-B!

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Excellent post. You should PM the site dev to get him/her to use
this or something like it.

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Fidens lvl 50 Katana/Regen Scrapper
Scarred Dream lvl 50 Ice/Dark Corrupter
Hephaestus II lvl 40 Fire/Thermal Corrupter
Evolution/Malevolence - Virtue

Thank you, this helps me (as a red/green colorblind player) a lot.

Any chance you could do the same for skin colors? TIA...

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It occurs to me that I'm an idiot. [Find the greyscale colors, they go with anything, and pick one or two others, probably from the same row. . . ]

Again, good job.

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Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.

So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.

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Thank you, this helps me (as a red/green colorblind player) a lot.

Any chance you could do the same for skin colors? TIA...

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Yes, I didn't do them with this becaue the person who was asking for a named chart didn't really have a problem with the skin tones...I'll work on updating it with the Skin colors ASAP.

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Wow, thanks!

As a color-blind COHer, I often worry that I've mismatched my costume options. This will help a lot!

Wait... 17 is Red? 27 is Orange?! They look exactly the same to me LOL

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Thanks again Altoholic, I'm adding this pic to the original that was done that gave you some basic of what the color scheme was

This does make life easier for the color blind.

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Take Care,
BinkDeBook
Virtue: CaptainMayhem-50 Inv/SS Tank; NaomiArmitage-50 DM/Inv Scrap; Captn Randomizer-50 MC/Kin Cntrller; Murky Thecat-50 Claws/SR Scrap; Professor Junk-50 Bots/Traps MM; +Others Arc Id #77311, #227436

Nice job *is grateful for not being colorblind*

I don't know about anyone else but rows M N and O make me hungry for toast, real bad!

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Just some quick tips for the colorblind:

Row A is greyscale, black to white. These colors are "design safe," they won't clash with anything else.

Each row is the same hue. For example, my eye registers 61-70 as the same "family" of green, but 51-60 is a different color, more yellowish. Same-hue colors don't really clash with each other.

For rows B, C, and D, colors ending with 1 through 7 increase in brightness. 11 dark red to 17 very bold red. Colors ending in 9 and 0 are low saturation-- gentler shades, not very bold. X9 is pastel, X0 is smoky. Colors ending in 8 are medium saturation-- not as pastel as X9, not as bold as X7.

For rows E through P, colors ending with 1 through 6 increase in brightness. 61 dark green to 66 very bold green. Colors ending in 8, 9, and 0 are low saturation. X8 is pastel, X9 is soft, X0 is smoky. Colors ending in 7 are medium saturation-- not as pastel as X8, not as bold as X6.

Low saturation shades look more metallic on a shiny surface-- high saturation shades look more plastic on a shiny surface. Low saturation shades are also a little bit safer; bold colors can potentially clash really badly, whereas clashing soft colors don't hurt the eyes as much. Greyscale is equivalent to zero saturation, and looks very metallic when shiny.

Color 40 is an especially useful warm neutral shade. On a shiny surface, it gives the illusion of semi-reflectivity, especially since the game surroundings are filled with warm neutral colors. There aren't any good cool neutral shades; use a greyscale instead-- it'll seem cool because the environment is warm.

It can be helpful to match costume hues with power hues, if you have powers that are very bright and distinctive. Some common power colors:

Energy Melee, Energy Assault: Row B
Fire: Row D
Radiation, Reconstruction, Healing Aura: Row F
Invuln Dull Pain: Row G
Force Fields: Row I
Ice: Row J
Ninjitsu, Energy Blast: Row L
Electric Blast, Electric Manipulation: Row M
Psychic Blast, Psychic Assault: Row N

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This is truly awesome....

Now, color blindedness aside.. if there was some sort of guide for the NON-Visually impaired with costume creation, maybe there wouldn't be SO MANY heroes/villians with just butt-ugly costumes running around...

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Sharing kindness is kindness doubled; a burden shared is a burden halved...

I am not bigoted for race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, or age... I do, however, have a big problem with stupidity, and stupidity knows no boundaries.

Thanks for the time spent on this chart. I've been planning on working up a chart like this using my trusty eyedropper and the swatches in Photoshop... but you've saved me a few hours (that can now be spent on game time). My seeing eye humans also thank you. Now I just have to bug them for the skintones.

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With red green color blindness, you mostly see shades of yellow and blue but not (obviously) green and red. So having a name to a color will help you pick out the exact color you want. Prevents you from mistaking green for blue and so forth. Most of different types of color blindness seem to see some shades of blue and yellow.


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The blindness part is something of a misnomer. Saying that I lack full color perception would probably be more accurate. For me its as if someone started bluring colors on the spectrum a bit. There is no colors A, B, C.... just B.

In my case dark red/green and light green/yellow get screwy but blue/purple are completely shot to heck. Most folks have 32 bit eyes and I'm stuck with the 8 bit. I need an upgrade.

P.S. Would you believe I work as a graphic designer?

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OMG, this is great bud. I was hoping I could find something like this the other day. I had a problem with dark colours. . .thank you so much!!111!!!

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I don't know if I sent you my thanks for this, Alt, so I'll put it here.

Thank you for creating this wonderful chart. It has helped me out more than you could ever know...

To everyone else, I'm the one who requested this chart. You're welcome.

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I'm pretty sure you said thanks! I am jus happy it is helping folks -- that's thanks enough for me.

As soon as I'm free to do so I WILL make a list for the Skin Colors. Look for it sometime this month. (I know people have been waiting -- Sorry for the delay but I haven't forgotten about it)

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Very nice alt and spider! This should earn you about a 1000 reps if they had them! Thanks so much, mad props!

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FYI: E.Spider is me. I just used my pen name on it as well as board name.

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Until recently, I didn't realize that yellow was at the top of the E, F, and G rows. I thought that yellow was the G row, and green was the E row.

To my eyes, those three rows look identical (that is, the columns seem to be the same colors). So that meant some Icon visits to make my red-and-green heroes into the red-and-gold (yellow, really) heroes that they're supposed to be! =^_^=

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Dungeoncleaners! (ID#125715): Slay the Adventurers! Rescue the Monsters! Return the Treasure!
Peppermint Cat-- Lv50 Mewtant Ice/Eng Bls

Awesome work! Using this chart more often now.

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Chad Gulzow-Man's second account. 'Nuff said.

this is awesome.

i dig that "i lack full color perception". it'll make explaining how i'm color blind a lot easier.

hopefully i won't get "that truck, is it blue or red?!?!??" anymore.
*shakes head*

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