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obviously having both red and green is a nope. would black, white, red, and blue work? or would blue/black be an issue


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anyway i think red/black/white/blue works pretty well for the vast majority of people, especially if you make sure the red is lighter than the blue or vice versa.

using coblis:

red-weak/protanomaly: red black white blue palette put through a red-weak colorblindness simulation filter

red-blind/protanopia: red black white blue palette put through a red-blind colorblindness simulation filter

blue-blind/tritanopia: red black white blue palette put through a blue-blind colorblindness simulation filter

monochromacy/achromatopsia: red black white blue palette put through a monochromacy colorblindness simulation filter


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@bethposting

for fire but i'm less sure about water and especially air.

i'd consider the "water drop" shape for water, or maybe a wave? but that might look too much like the fire triangle. maybe a wiggly line representing a set of waves? 𓈖 an egyptian hieroglyph for "water" is the source of the letter M actually

i'm even more unsure about air because obviously you can't, like, see it. my current thought it to imitate some historical "wind being blown out of a face" symbols i've seen and go with a an outward cone of a bunch of slightly wiggly, approximately parallel lines that curl outward at the ends or form a sort of burst or cloud



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in reply to @bethposting's post:

I'll defer to actual color-blind people on this site (of which I know there are several), but try searching for color pallets for data visualization. The field of data viz has put a lot of academic research into this problem, and the tool vendors actually incorporate it into the built-in pallets.

Apparently it's possible to use red and green if you know what you're doing! Like a bright red contrasted with a dark green. Conversely even with "good" colors, it's the specific hues that matter and let them be well-separated. So don't just go by coarse colors like "blue" and "green," find the specific RGB values in use.

Red, White, Black, and Yellow are already a thing in alchemy, and I think are associated with the elements already. As long as the red and yellow are different brightness, they should be distinguishable from each other. If you check the colors using colorblindness filters, you should be able to check if they're distinct yourself. For extra measure, you should use symbols too

in reply to @bethposting's post:

⧖ feels like an option for air, particularly if conceived of as four lines drawn without lifting the pen. No one's likely to confuse it for △, □, or ○. Since □ and ○ are relatively confusable with one another at low resolution, however, ꩜ might be better for water than ○.