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Re: COLRv1 to gray/alpha question (& color-blindness question)


From: Hin-Tak Leung
Subject: Re: COLRv1 to gray/alpha question (& color-blindness question)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 04:52:33 +0000 (UTC)

On Wednesday, 19 July 2023 at 05:19:40 BST, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

> > I’m colour-blind, but not sure I understand what you’re asking
> > here. None of the colour fonts on Google Fonts seem obviously
> > difficult to read for me.


> Let's assume that you can't discern colors A and B, where both map to
> exactly the same gray value C (or to almost identical values).  If a
> glyph uses those two colours exclusively, you will have problems with
> both a colour and a gray-level version of it.

Population health statistics - a few percent of Caucasian males are red-green colour-blind. I guess Brad is one of them. So I draw a pink smiley face on a pale green background, you won't be able to tell there is a smiley face.

If we are talking about text fonts, using colour fonts to annotate Arabic for proper pronunciation of passages from the Quran... is it possible to intentionally create a font that would cause colour blind non-native people to mis-pronounce certain words and create offences / blasphemy? :-).

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