Re: [piecepack] Is the piecepack color-blind friendly.

["Karol" <karol@...>]

A simple dot of White-out on the top of  the red or green pawns head would
do it as well. I know someone who did this to solve his inability to
distinguish blue from black.

Karol MMB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Hale-Evans" <rwhe@...>
To: <piecepack@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [piecepack] Is the piecepack color-blind friendly.


> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:24:24PM -0000, rmundsc@... wrote:
>
> > I have been showing the piecepack to people I know, and I have had
> > two people tell me that they would not buy it because the are
> > red/green colorblind and they can not tell the difference between
> > the red and green pawns.  I am not color blind so this was an
> > eye-opening (no pun intended) experience.
>
> Perhaps your friends could put a rubber band around either the green
> or red pawn, to distinguish it from the other.  That's simple enough.
> I understand that 1 in 10 white males are colourblind to some degree,
> and there is not enough awareness about this among gaming companies,
> but I would hope your friends would not make a political issue about
> this by not supporting the piecepack concept when a fix is so easy.
>
> Alternatively, your friends could _make_ their own piecepacks; the PDF
> files at piecepack.org contain both yellow and green versions of the
> Crowns suit, and all pawns have suit symbols.
>
> > I would like to recommend that the piecepack pawns be modified so
> > that a piecepack is completely color-blind compatible just like a
> > deck of cards.  I would think the easiest way to do this is to
> > include the suit symbol on the pawns.  At the very least the
> > elimination of Red or Green (Yellow is a better choice) as a color
> > for one of the suits would be a good idea.
>
> As I mentioned, this is already true for printable piecepacks.  But
> I'm sure that eventually some manufacturer will do the same for their
> pawns.  As with the question of directional/invertible pawns, I'm sure
> the current spec will change to meet the needs of players.  Call it
> "piecepack spec 1.0".
>
> Incidentally, I just found out that Icehouse, which I had thought was
> patented, is now also effectively in the public domain.  The patent
> has expired.  I'll post some illuminating mail from the Icehouse list
> after breakfast.
>
> PAX et LVX,
>
> Ron H-E
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