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NaturalHistoryMuseum / inselect

Cross-platform desktop app for the segmentation and annotation of images of museum objects
https://naturalhistorymuseum.github.io/inselect/
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Should bounding box colours be configurable? #54

Open llivermore opened 10 years ago

llivermore commented 10 years ago

Are the current bounding box colours (red and blue) suitable for colour blind users?

If we add orange and green for annotation status will this cause issues?

If so, should bounding box colours be configurable?

quicklizard99 commented 9 years ago

Pure blue (unselected) and pure red (selected) are pretty good choices for images with white backgrounds but not for those with dark backgrounds (e.g, scans of microscope slides).

Configuration raises the possibility that somebody will pick colours that are not sensible or do not work well in some cases. It also makes support a bit harder.

Should we aim to find a scheme that is colour-blind safe and works well in all cases? ColorBrewer can provide palettes that are colour-blind safe. Vischeck is a useful tool for checking whatever scheme we come up with. Another useful resource.

An alternative

Rather than indicating selection with a different colour we could use a single colour for boxes and indicate selection with a partially opaque fill colour: selection

quicklizard99 commented 8 years ago

0.1.20 provides two predefined colour schemes (#183).