Craig HockenberryJan 27, 2023

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 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 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 threadBrent
@eviltrout what app? That'd be useful for me.
Jan 28, 2023 at 1:44amWeb
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.