I used yellow for health to avoid red/green colourblind issues
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2025
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I love the possibility of having a red/green colorblind character and having to roll to hopefully pick the right potion when they both health potion and poison in their bag.
I feel like any decent adventurer would develop a system. I hear blind people will fold their paper money a certain way so they can differentiate between the different values...
Most countries have varying sizes and tactile features to distinguish denominations.
Sure but it falls apart when an asshole gives them a dollar change instead of a 20 and they fold it as a 20. Any system relies on having trust that the system was done correctly as you can't verify.
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It's true.
Rules are meant to be broken - apart from when they aren't.
You can change any aspect of the world any way you like, but only if doing that is critical to your universe and story.
Messing up without reason conventions that are well established is a dick move, unless the whole point of your work is to screw with people.
Also you need to consistently break conventions once you do it or you really screw with people and make a shitty world.
Daggerfall!
If they don't taste like peppermint, I'm sending them back.
Reminds me of that overwatch character with the yellow healing aura and the green speed aura. Just why?
In Overwatch, healing is consistently represented by the color yellow. Mercy's beam, Ana's darts, Moira's piss, Soldier's healyboo, etc. Making Lucio's speed aura yellow and healing aura green would be visually confusing
Then the entire game is wrong.
Because his default coloring is green and yellow I'd guess
Yeah but the healing aura should be green and the speed one should be yellow
Green means go.
Yellow means “Yello? I don’t got all day!”
And yellow means, uh, holy light, or something.
I ain't played no Overwatch, but I all but guarantee that's what it is.
Idk, he's a Brazilian roller-blading sports-loving DJ...
I think most likely scenario is he was green and yellow based on the Brazilian flag, green means "go", and there was only one other color left for "heal", so it's yellow.
Oooh i think his name is Lucio. These colours, from what i know, depend on which skin you have on
Yeah, I meant his default skin, sowwy
My world is shattered.
I think I was thinking of Mercy. But I guess her angelic yellow beam is more God's Wrath than it is Pastor Cures Your Back Pain anyway.
Looking at you, "Dragon Age" Veilguard.
Not sure if this is more or less of a problem for people wtih red-green colorblindness.
On the one hand, it's harder to differentiate at all. On the other hand, it kind of removes that established expectation and keeps you in the habit of adapting.
Why not both?
How about this food is poison and snake bites heal?
Then you are an undead
Divinity Original sin vibes