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by pandoro 1418 days ago
Let me first state that I understand that your goal was not to create an "accessible" palette and you state in your README that the palette is not "particularly suitable for people with colour vision deficiency". But being colorblind myself (deuteranomaly, up to 8% of the male population), I would still like to offer feedback: it is extremely hard for me to distinguish most of the colors in this palette (especially in the light version); more so than with "normal/default" palettes
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I’m actually working on another project where I’m trying to design fully optimized categorical colour palettes for people with colour vision deficiency, so I’m fully aware of this issue.

When trying to encode highlighting with only chroma and hue and still be accessible, one would probably have to limit the palette to two hues which obviously isn’t practical. This means it would be necessary to use luminance, which expressly goes against the design goals and would eliminate the advantages I’m trying to achieve for people with normal vision.

But you're right, I should have been more clear in the docu, this palette is actually particularly unsuitable. (update: clarified it now)