Support for color blind players

Comments: 17

• 11 Jan
  Mahal Merged

  I also have deuteranomaly (the most common type of red/green colourblindness). May I help with suggestions for colours please?
  
  For a 4 player game, a good list is:
  1) Blue
  2) Orange (But not a dark shade. Like the fruit colour or a bit lighter is good.)
  3) Dark brown
  4) White
  
  Please feel free to ask me questions as I've been part of research on colourblindness before.

• 11 Jan
  H Merged

  What if each player could customize the colors on their side?

• 27 Jan
  Alex Bruski

  Would it help if there were a white or black player number on the board pieces? Then for those who can't tell the colors apart, they could just go by the numbers on the roads, villages, and cities.

• 27 Jan
  Alex Bruski Merged

  Why not add a black or white player number 1-4 on the top center of each road, village, and city. Then, no matter what the colors are, the parts will be able to be identified by player number.

• 27 Jan
  Esqarrouth Admin

  "Color blind mode" (suggested by terrence on 2019-11-28), including upvotes (3) and comments (3), was merged into this suggestion.

• 28 Jan
  DA

  Even a small roman numeral/number system attached to the pieces on the board would work? (Green is 1 or I, Blue is 2 or II, Orange is 3 or III, Red is 4 or IV)

• 19 Apr
  Mack Merged

  Allow more than the original 4 colors for color blind people.
  The resources have figures, but the roads, settlements, and cities are hard to distinguish between players.

• 19 Apr
  Alex Bruski Merged

  There was a big discussion over a bunch of features a month or two back. A lot of stuff got changed to make it better for Color Blind players. I was proposing that each of the Settlements, Cities, and roads include a pattern for the roof and road that is unique for each player. I am not sure if there are still plans to implement further changes. Get it voted to the top of the suggestion list, and I am certain you will get action. Plan out carefully what you ask for. Working is important also.

• 19 Apr
  Alex Bruski Merged

  Your wording is important also... wish these had the ability to edit!

• 29 Apr
  benny Merged

  i have deuteranomaly and cant see the diffrence between bronze and red. please add some more harsh colours and shades like pink, white and grey, so i dont have to bug my freinds about what is what :)

• 01 May
  Cristián Arenas

  Please, I need this! Green, red and orange look just too similar to me, it takes time to figure out who's who, and I've accidentally put the robber on myself.

• 05 May
  Mr Lack Cones

  While it is really fun to fuck with with our colourblind friend and pick similar colours so he confuses settlements and when there are wheat/sheep trades he can't tell which is which, I think he deserves a break from it.

• 23 May
  Paxton Chow Merged

  I second this feature. I can't tell the cities apart and also can't tell the players apart in the trade screens. Perhaps for the player icons, just give people different unique icons?
  
  One other alternative for partially color blind people like me would be simply let each user select their preferred color palette.

• 30 May
  epixxfish

  My friend came up with an idea for his colorblindness to have the name of the player show up while hovering the cursor over a city/settlement/road so that they may differentiate them without relying on the colors. They also wished for the usernames to be shown on the robber popup that happens when stealing for the same reason. We make it work by chatting and telling them who's who but we still run into some problems occasionally because red/orange/brown/green are so similar

• 08 Aug
  Tor Merged

  The game is really good, except it's meaningless for even a slightly colour blind player as two of the colours are impossible to tell apart so you're just guessing who is doing what and who you're trading with. When you play with friends you can sort of work around it to at least be able to participate, but if you're playing with the bots it's just impossible. It's a shame that such a good game has stumbled on such a fundamental hurdle.

• 18 Aug
  JUAN Admin

  "Help Color Blind People" (suggested by Mack on 2020-04-19), including upvotes (3) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.

• 18 Aug
  JUAN Admin

  "Add more free colour options for colourblind players, or a colour tilt function" (suggested by benny on 2020-04-29), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.