Re: NCARG for color-blind people

From: Ethan Alpert (ethan@XXXXXX)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 16:35:16 MDT

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    Have you considered using hatching?

    >
    > Greetings
    >
    > An email from a color-blind user of my NCARG-produced filled contour
    > plots has requested any help I could provide in additionally labelling
    > the plots. I might add contours with numbers to the plots but on many
    > there are so many values/colors (up to 22 - i have to go through the
    > color wheel twice and use strong/weak intensity to distinguish them)
    > that they would be very difficult to read and would also get in the
    > way of those just trying to use the colors. There may well be no good
    > solution, but I just thought I'd see if anyone else has run into this
    > question and if so how they have dealt with it.
    >
    > Jack
    >
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