{"id":287,"date":"2010-07-18T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2010-07-15T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T11:52:05","slug":"daltonize-your-figures-for-the-colorblind-audience-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/daltonize-your-figures-for-the-colorblind-audience-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Daltonize your figures for the colorblind audience members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ishihara_daltonized.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ishihara_daltonized.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"ishihara_daltonized\" width=\"441\" height=\"354\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ishihara_daltonized.png 441w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ishihara_daltonized-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m revising figures for a paper right now and the editors suggested I avoid red-green color schemes. In the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/senses\/b130.html\">7% of men are colorblind<\/a>, usually red-green colorblind. The editors suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vischeck.com\/daltonize\/\">this great site<\/a>. In addition to some good information, the site has an online app which implements an algorithm that recolorizes full color figures in order to enhance the contrast for red-green colorblind people.  They dubbed the procedure &#8220;Daltonization&#8221;, for John Dalton, the fellow who first published on color blindness in 1798. It makes sense to do this for slide presentations and posters too, not just papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ishihara_daltonized.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m revising figures for a paper right now and the editors suggested I avoid red-green color schemes. In the US, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/senses\/b130.html\">7% of men are colorblind<\/a>, usually red-green colorblind. The editors suggested &#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/18\/daltonize-your-figures-for-the-colorblind-audience-members\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-dissemination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}