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9th July 2003

Safe Web Colours for colour-deficient vision

“Colour is increasingly used these days to help convey information. When one in twelve men have some measurable degree of colour vision deficiency, the use of certain colours in certain ways can cause difficulty when navigating web pages or software, and even total illegibility in some cases… This site contains information and design tools. They may not show you exactly what dichromats see, but will help you to understand which colours are easily confused.”

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