Color-blindness problem regarding gems

Hello

I suffer from color blindness - can't make a difference between gems of color green and red and it is very hard for me to know which one is which...

I would suggest adding form to the sockets and gems - each color should have a form and a color. So that people that can't see the color at least see the form

Thanks!

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redbull1981 wrote:

Hello

I suffer from color blindness - can't make a difference between gems of color green and red and it is very hard for me to know which one is which...

I would suggest adding form to the sockets and gems - each color should have a form and a color. So that people that can't see the color at least see the form

Thanks!

color itself doesnt matter, its the stats that do.
in your case, and all those with severe CB, should just look more closely at the stats of the gems.

for the most part the first stat listed (STR/DEX/INT) denotes the color of the gem, and any secondary stat has no bearing on color.

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Dawntehkat wrote:

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redbull1981 wrote:

Hello

I suffer from color blindness - can't make a difference between gems of color green and red and it is very hard for me to know which one is which...

I would suggest adding form to the sockets and gems - each color should have a form and a color. So that people that can't see the color at least see the form

Thanks!

color itself doesnt matter, its the stats that do.
in your case, and all those with severe CB, should just look more closely at the stats of the gems.

for the most part the first stat listed (STR/DEX/INT) denotes the color of the gem, and any secondary stat has no bearing on color.

You only explained that he can see the stats of the item. But his true problem is that he can't see the socket color's which is his true problem.

GGG should really add an option for people that are color-blind. It could really make the game easier for some.

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Jynxxx wrote:

You only explained that he can see the stats of the item. But his true problem is that he can't see the socket color's which is his true problem.

Without looking at the gem's artwork, you can determine its color simply by looking at its stat requirements.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Jynxxx wrote:

You only explained that he can see the stats of the item. But his true problem is that he can't see the socket color's which is his true problem.

Without looking at the gem's artwork, you can determine its color simply by looking at its stat requirements.

Socket color. If that doesn't tell you the problem then I don't know what will.

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Jynxxx wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Jynxxx wrote:

You only explained that he can see the stats of the item. But his true problem is that he can't see the socket color's which is his true problem.

Without looking at the gem's artwork, you can determine its color simply by looking at its stat requirements.

Socket color. If that doesn't tell you the problem then I don't know what will.

except TC specifically stated gems - not sockets.

I'm no expert on color blindness but I was playing around on Gimp and discovered some potential things to think about when improving accessibility to color blind people:

1.) green gems =/= green sockets. A person who is green-blind might see the green gems as black but the green sockets as very similar to the red ones. This is because the green sockets are fairly yellowed, while the green gems are purely green.

2.) similarly, someone who is blue-blind may have trouble telling the blue and green gems apart, while the blue sockets will look black to them - the blue gems are actually mixed blue and green.

I also might have been playing with old art, since I found it on Google rather than taking screenshots myself. Anyway, I hope that's useful to someone. My suggestion to help solve the problem is to make all gems and sockets purely in their respective colors without mixing (the blue gems would become notably darker in appearance to most of us), and then adjust the intrinsic luminosity of those gems and sockets by color. For instance, if blue gems had the green removed but the luminosity significantly increased, they would look fairly similar to most of us, while they would look dramatically different to anyone who is any type of color-blind other than red-blind.

As someone who is colour-blind, I support implementing a function that covers this issue.

As others have suggested that it is 'easy' to tell which colours are which because of stat types, I have this to offer.

I recently picked up a gem for a totem, without knowing which colour it is, it stumps me.