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  • pyre@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI hate these icons
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    15 days ago

    this image has two groups:

    at first glance did you separate it into red v blue or circles vs squares?

    you’re absolutely making things up. we’ve evolved to differentiate shades as well, which supercedes colors. even for colorblind people this kind of image should be differentiated by color or shade first.

    not to mention not all people have perfect vision, in fact people with blurry vision probably outnumber colorblind people, and that would make the shapes not extremely reliable, especially when most icons would be more or less squares and circles with small details changed.


  • the squares are there for comedic effect. the shapes are not actually indistinguishable. but at a glance, color is a much faster tool we use to identify these icons. so the problem here is that it takes longer for us to decipher a Google app icon, and the solution would be to differentiate the colors.

    also this would help colorblind people as well, because removing unnecessarily complicated colors would make the shapes easier to identify as well.