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Out of curiosity, how does Metro look to color blind people?


You can use e.g. this link and then select different types of color blindness via the popover on the right:

http://colorfilter.wickline.org/?a=1;r=;l=9;j=1;u=aozora.git...

In short: Metro looks different because it uses different colors. I guess this shouldn't impact readability or accessibility in most cases due to the use of simple, sharp icons and white text. But I guess the white text could result in problems when the color blind perceive a given color as a light gray, resulting in little contrast.


Thanks for the information and the link, that is a really cool site! I'll make sure to use it on future projects just to make sure I'm not completely screwing over color blind people.


Deut. (red/green) here; it looks fine to me. In my case, most colour-blindness issues arise from poorly contrasting colours - given that most of the Metro style is white text on a solid bright/dark (not pale) colour I don't see many issues.


That depends on what type of colour blindness they have, as there isn't just one type. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness


Colorless.




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