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color: 😐
Japanese color: 😲
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term
A named color is just a term for an arbitrary range of light frequencies, and different cultures differentiate between different ranges. Especially when you get into more specific named colors like “indigo” or “chartreuse”. In fact “indigo” made its way into English from Portuguese and “chartreuse” from French.
I don’t speak Japanese, but these could very well be “Japanese colours”.
I’m referring to this meme, which makes fun of japanophiles.
Help I can’t see the colors since I don’t know Japanese
GeordiRejects.jpg : millenial grey
GeordiPoints.jpg : japanese grey!What’s wrong with #ffffff?
Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn’t have the worst of the designer-brain “grey on marginally different grey” eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.
Full-contrast black-on-white is also a common eye strain and/or migraine trigger.
Would white-on-black cause the same problem or fix it? I’ve been curious about this kinda thing for a while, but never curious enough to research it since it’s never affected me.
I’m honestly not sure; I expect it varies from person to person. I certainly find it difficult to look at either way around.
I know I read at some point a light gray (which is a shade of white I guess) and a dark gray (which is a shade of black) is ideal for reading for the most people. It shouldn’t be the highest contrast pure white on pure black, but something like that is the ideal.
*puts fffffc background*
*where text*
Purple water does actually look kinda good, imma joink it
Those arnt dog ears those are bunny ears. Iv been scammed! Should be called poorly named dog game!
Oh I ran out of funding and had to shorten that title. It’s not really about dogs, but about Sparkledogs. Those can be anything 😤
紫水晶 (murasakizuishou) is amethyst, not “purple water”
In terms of accessibility I would guess this is pretty solid advice. You can probably switch these with #fff without loosing to much contrast with whatever other colours you have.
Japan is when foreign and different apparently
Wow, Nihonese grey scales are so much better designed than the Western equivalent.
