Points of View: Color Blindness. Wong, B. 8:441.
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[Excerpt] [...] Color blindness affects a substantial portion of the human population. Protanopia and deuteranopia, the two most common forms of inherited color blindness, are red-green color vision defects caused by the absence of red or green retinal photoreceptors, respectively. In individuals of Northern European ancestry, as many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women experience the common form of red-green color blindness3. If a submitted manuscript happens to go to three male reviewers of Northern European descent, the chance that at least one will be color blind is 22 percent. Picking colors suitable for color-blind readers not only enhances accessibility but also is good graphic design practice. [...] In general, colors will be easier to distinguish when they vary in lightness and saturation as well as hue. The palette of eight colors shown in Figure 2 has good overall variability and can be differentiated by individuals with red-green color blindness. [...]
@article{wongPointsViewColor2011,
  title = {Points of View: Color Blindness},
  shorttitle = {Points of View},
  author = {Wong, Bang},
  date = {2011-05-27},
  journaltitle = {Nature Methods},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {441},
  issn = {1548-7105},
  doi = {10.1038/nmeth.1618},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1618},
  urldate = {2019-06-05},
  abstract = {[Excerpt] [...] Color blindness affects a substantial portion of the human population. Protanopia and deuteranopia, the two most common forms of inherited color blindness, are red-green color vision defects caused by the absence of red or green retinal photoreceptors, respectively. In individuals of Northern European ancestry, as many as 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women experience the common form of red-green color blindness3. If a submitted manuscript happens to go to three male reviewers of Northern European descent, the chance that at least one will be color blind is 22 percent.

Picking colors suitable for color-blind readers not only enhances accessibility but also is good graphic design practice. [...]  In general, colors will be easier to distinguish when they vary in lightness and saturation as well as hue. The palette of eight colors shown in Figure 2 has good overall variability and can be differentiated by individuals with red-green color blindness. [...]},
  keywords = {~INRMM-MiD:z-CYBXLTTS,color-blindness,scientific-communication,visual-notation,visualization},
  langid = {english}
}

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