More distinct icons, please...

[RobA]

Hi Guys,

Sorry to bother anybody with this, but the icons used on the forum to indicate new posts in threads etc are very very hard to distinguish for me. I am colorblind and to be honest they all look the same to me. :S

It's certainly not urgent, but if you ever work on the layout, could you please keep it in mind and maybe see if you can change the colors around a bit for greater contrast? Needless to say I'll volunteer as a guinea pig!

Thanks,
Nils

We just set them up with the new forum and had run them past a colour-blind evaluator.

This is new posts:


This is no new posts:


In the forum list, they are new posts in forum:


No new posts in forum:


I can see the last two are close on the monitor I currently have. On a different monitor they were significantly different. Which are problematic?

-Rob A>

[bartmoss]

Whoa I did not think I'd spark two pages of replies

We just set them up with the new forum and had run them past a colour-blind evaluator.


I can see the last two are close on the monitor I currently have. On a different monitor they were significantly different. Which are problematic?

-Rob A>

Cool, at least you thought of it - thank you; I do really appreciate it.

To me both types are problematic. Sounds dumb, I am sure. I am not "really" colorblind, that is, I don't just see shades of gray or something, I don't know the technical terms. It's basically that some colors blend into each other and I just can't tell the difference well. When the icons are right next to each other, it's not so bad. When I only see one kind, I could not for the life me reliably say "this is a topic with new posts".

I think for me the solution would be to make the "new posts" icon brighter. Maybe go for a reflective glass look.. I don't know.