Why are examples (maps) PNGs?
Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns
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#22Once upon a time someone on HN posted about an old-school book describing patterns for graphs. Very useful for SVG, for website design, for colorblind people. I failed to bookmark it. Can someone help?? How to find that book?
This one? https://archive.org/stream/graphicpresentat00brinrich#page/2...
I'm not sure - visually it looks more less like the page I've seen. But it's thorough and a fascinating read anyway.
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#23As someone with colorblindness who often struggles with reading colors on maps, this would be a lifesaver if used. I love it.
I feel ignorant. I just found out that almost 1/5 of people have some form of color blindness with 1/20 being the better known red-green type.
I guess one reason why people don’t talk about it much is that the color blind have good strategies to deal with it? It must be confusing at times?
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#24So nice
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#25This is really neat - useful and beautiful. My only minor concern is that thicker/thinner is ambiguous and my first thought would be that they carry out the heavier/lighter functionality. Perhaps denser/sparser would have been more appropriate?
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#26Very nice, really like this visual style.
Was a bit disappointed that the Italy and US maps were just PNGs. Can these not be rendered in browser?
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#27As someone with colorblindness who often struggles with reading colors on maps, this would be a lifesaver if used. I love it.
I feel ignorant. I just found out that almost 1/5 of people have some form of color blindness with 1/20 being the better known red-green type. I guess one reason why people don’t talk about it much is that the color blind have good strategies to deal with it? It must be confusing at times?
One reason why not using color as the sole identifier in interfaces is critically important.
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#28Once upon a time someone on HN posted about an old-school book describing patterns for graphs. Very useful for SVG, for website design, for colorblind people. I failed to bookmark it. Can someone help?? How to find that book?
This one? https://archive.org/stream/graphicpresentat00brinrich#page/2...
This PDF is wonderful. Reminds me of Edward Tufte's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte
Re: Textures.js is a JavaScript library for creating SVG patterns
#29Once upon a time someone on HN posted about an old-school book describing patterns for graphs. Very useful for SVG, for website design, for colorblind people. I failed to bookmark it. Can someone help?? How to find that book?
Bertin's Semiology of Graphics?
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#30This looks great. Now I need to figure out how create a quick project to use this on. Reminds me of work from an Edward Tufte book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte