Joe MontcalmoJan 27, 2023
Craig Hockenberry

One of the things we're looking at for the next release of #LineaSketch is better support for folks with colorblindness.

It's counterintuitive that this kind of accessibility is needed in a drawing app, but people are more amazing than you first realize.

We learned this lesson when Linea added support for VoiceOver 🤯

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Stjep (@[email protected])

A question to artists that are color blind (either fully color blind or any partial color blindness on the spectrum). What process / tools / techniques do you use to compensate for that handicap? I'm red-green-blind myself, so I'm really curious to hear how other artists deal with this or similar conditions. :boost_ok: Boosts are appreciated #mastoart #art #illustration #conceptart

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Show threadijatz_La_HojitaJan 27, 2023
@chockenberry @Sp3r4z Ceci 👆 pourrait t'intéresser 🙂.
Show threadShelly BrisbinJan 27, 2023
@chockenberry that’s great! I’m color blind, and would love a drawing app that supported me in that way. Available for all your TestFlights.
Show threadSimon WelshJan 27, 2023
@chockenberry I’ve actually worked with a colourblind designer and, completely unsurprisingly, he tended to put out more accessible designs by default than the other designers
Show threadCraig HockenberryJan 27, 2023
@simon_w Yeah, as my eyes grow older, my thoughts about size and contrast in typographic design have changed significantly.
Show threadSolarbird Jan 27, 2023

@chockenberry I personally knew (and distantly still know) a comics artist who was 100% colourblind and even did colouring work, just entirely by theory

He only got caught out once when a character suddenly turned purple for like four pages and it wasn't even his fault, the colour got mislabelled at the factory xD

Show threadCraig HockenberryJan 27, 2023
@moira Great story!
Show threadRobin WardJan 27, 2023
@moira @chockenberry as a colourblind person I can tel you it’s less of an illustration disadvantage than you might think. You can still do all the values and lines and such. Personally I Google swatches of colours by name frequently and use those in programs. I also have an app on my phone that will tell me what colour something is if I’m not sure.
Show threadSolarbird Jan 27, 2023
@eviltrout @chockenberry I learned that from him! Though most of his work was in B&W - he did some of the most gorgeous watercolour wash work I've ever seen in comics.
Show threadBrentJan 28, 2023
@eviltrout what app? That'd be useful for me.
Show threadRobin WardJan 28, 2023
@brent I use color blind pal. It’s very basic but it does work! Someday I should see if there’s a more advanced one.
Show threadDaniel SchildtJan 28, 2023

@eviltrout @brent Another potentially useful tool for working with colors on the desktop environment is PowerToys Color Picker https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/color-picker utility from Microsoft.

It can be configured to display different types of color formats and you can also create customized formats for specific use cases. Works system-wide, so that makes a big difference compared to tools that are isolated only to design & graphics tools. Also useful for webdev usage, because it can output HEX, RGB, HSL, etc.

PowerToys Color Picker utility for Windows

A system-wide color picking utility for Windows to pick colors from the screen and copy the default value to the clipboard.

Show threadRogerJan 28, 2023

@moira @chockenberry I did graphic design in the ‘90s, and did a full-page, color ad for the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. I remember getting an email back from the conductor, complimenting me on my bold choice of purple as a dominant color for the ad.

I thought it was blue.

Show threadJon HicksJan 27, 2023
@chockenberry yeah colour palettes can be a nightmare - lots of small squares of colour can be hard to differentiate. This is where labels or HSL/HSB colour values can really help
Show threadCameron BalesJan 27, 2023
@chockenberry oh my god. I’m colourblind and I’ve done colour correction and image tidying in photoshop. Professionally!?! I’d have to get my work double checked, but did it well enough to have that job for a few years. I would have appreciated helpful tools.
Show threadHayden StainsbyJan 27, 2023

@chockenberry my brother is a motion graphic designer, amongst other things, and he often has to go over key parts of work with a colour tool to make sure that the colour he is seeing is actually correct because of his colour blindness.

This is like a programmer having to hover over every function return value to make sure it’s actually what they are reading on the screen.

Show threadLee MJan 28, 2023
@chockenberry I cannot tell you the amount of purple oceans and skies I created as a child.
Show threadmrpommerJan 30, 2023

@chockenberry That is fantastic news. As an architect with Deuteranopia, I’ve had to develop workarounds to avoid goofy mistakes (or rely on my teammates w. good colour vision).

I’m always delighted when software (mostly games, like Space Age and Frenzic!) give the option of switching palettes so I can actually see (and enjoy) the game. I’ve been advocating for ages with our CAD software devs to build in such accommodations, but without success.

Thanks for the recognizing these needs.