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by hartleybrody 4660 days ago
ah, that's a great point! what're the best colors for indicating success and failure to red-green color blind folks?
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Jenkins actually uses red/blue for this reason.
Any pair of colors except (red, green).
Another perspective -- since red and green are very universal colors for success/failure, stop/go, etc., you could also choose to keep the red and green colors but change the dots to a checkmark and X glyph (or similar).
Yep, just made this change actually. I agree with the universality of the meaning of red and green. I also liked using those colors since it makes the resulting table much quicker to scan. Changing the marks from circles to useful symbols is probably much better than coming up with arbitrary success/failure colors. Thanks for the tip!
I'm red/green as well and agree the glyph is the best way to go.