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Re: Recommend efficient color contrast checker

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From: Chagnon | PubCom
Date: Jun 18, 2013 1:42PM

If you're working with more highly-designed documents with graphics, color
text, and other objects, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop have a quick
utility to view the colors for Protanopia and Deuteranopia.

Open or import the file in Illustrator (depending upon the file type: note
that PDFs can be open natively in Illustrator).
Select View, Proof Setup.
Choose either Protanopia or Deuteranopia
Then, Select View, Proof Setup again and then Check Colors.

This doesn't change the colors, but instead lets the designer view how they
will appear to people with color blindness.

-Bevi Chagnon
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