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by solasluaith 1418 days ago
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)