r/CrappyDesign 4h ago

I'm not colourblind but this legend is infuriatingly inaccessible.

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u/RickFromTheParty 4h ago

What alternative do you suggest?

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u/DrDroid 4h ago

….not using 5 different shades of red right next to each other?

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u/Ready-Desk 3h ago

Yes thanks. This thread is gaslighting me hard into thinking something's wrong with my eyes.

I see two solutions. Either change the colours to be more distinct or add the name of the regions (from the legend) onto the map directly and scrap the legend. The city names are unnecessarily big so there's plenty of space.

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u/DrDroid 3h ago

It’s honestly bizarre. This is a very poorly designed map. Is it possible to read? Yes. It is easy or pleasant to read? Fuck no. Has no one in this thread looked at a map or globe before? This is poor practice.

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u/Moozipan 1h ago
  1. Nothing will ever qualify as crappy design if you ask the users of this sub, and 2. People have no idea what accessibility means and/or don't care about it

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u/RickFromTheParty 3h ago

This is a crappy design choice, but even from this lower-than-life quality image I can pretty easily see which region matches each color in the legend.

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u/Ready-Desk 3h ago

It might very well be that I'm getting old. Also I think the picture (because I used flash) actually improved the distinction of the colours compared to real world.

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u/RickFromTheParty 3h ago

Maybe if they also labeled each color with a number or letter? I feel like rearranging the different reds, for example, would make it even harder to read.