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Myndex

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About Myndex

Color Science Researcher, developer, author, on twitter as @MyndexResearch and on Stack, GitHub, Wiki, and other places as Myndex

Recent public activity

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    Comment #38020776

    There's also a curated linktree of key resources. https://linktr.ee/Myndex

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    Comment #38020764

    It will be moving to its own URL soon: apcacontrast.com That URL works now, as a redirect, but will become the host soon.

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    Comment #37394521

    My guess here, to help it make sense, perhaps think in terms of the luminous excitation of "blacklight paint"... If she's having strong reactions, probably to metamers under the ri…

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    Comment #37394062

    Hey @zauguin and @kreskin, I am sorry about the licensing issue, it is only temporary during the public beta. And I am providing some exceptions, if you need, send an email to lega…

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    Comment #37393216

    Hi @seanwilson, standards work is nothing BUT compromises it seems. The reason for the public beta is to find concerns like these. One of the aspects of APCA that is unique are the…

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    Comment #37393060

    Hi @jjcm and @seanwilson First of all thank you for these comments, I do proactively seek out comments like these as there are too few at the official APCA discussion forum https:/…

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    Comment #37392405

    WCAG 2.x was neither peer reviewed nor empirically tested—true. However this is not the case for the candidate for WCAG 3, which is APCA. APCA has been in public beta testing for t…

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    Comment #37199865

    The Medium platform has a lot of good features going for it, yet it literally ignores visual accessibility. For a platform that is entirely based around readable content, one would…

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    Comment #36573308

    Nate Baldwin (the developer behind Adobe Leonardo) created the site, and did a pretty amazing job, taking an extremely complicated and nuanced topic (color) and breaking it down in…

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    Comment #36573215

    Nate developed the site before AI like GPT were available. Color is a very difficult subject—but the site is filled with the references that it's relating to, so if you want the de…

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    Comment #36573059

    There is some conflation here between an art definition and the colorimetric definition. In colorimetry: Luminance is a spectrally weighted measure of physical light, it is not a p…

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    Comment #36115032

    !! Thank you for mentioning... and to add, human perception of contrast is actually driven more by the spatial characteristics (size, weight, thickness) than by the distance betwee…

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    Comment #32833689

    Clearing up a few misconceptions regarding color and contrast in design.

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    Comment #31785828

    Thank you for posting

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    Comment #31443470

    I can say it has been immensely helpful reading through the comments here and I thank you all for your input. If you want to read further regarding the readability research project…

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    Comment #31443447

    Then you missed the key part of the article as nowhere in the article did I ever advocate #fff/#000

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    Comment #31443435

    Yes often the case

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    Comment #31443401

    I guess what I wrote about adaptation didn't some across as clearly as I had hoped. Adapting to the ambient light and reading on paper which is never more than 90% DIFFUSE reflecta…

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    Comment #31443360

    NOWHERE, absolutely nowhere in the article did I suggest using #fff/#000 On the contrary, I highly recommend that for light backgrounds the, background directly under body text be …

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    Comment #31443350

    The simple answer is that this one article received tens of thousands of reads in a day. My other sites, not so much,

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    Comment #31443335

    Medium does not allow the author to set the text color at all.

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    Comment #31443327

    Try https://www.myndex.com/APCA/

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    Comment #31443322

    No choice thanks to Medium.