ColorSym is a free, open-source color-identification system that pairs every color with a unique, memorable symbol. When color alone isn't enough to tell things apart, the symbol does the job, so the roughly 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women with color vision deficiency can read your components, charts, or UI with confidence.

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This looks like it's stealing someone else's work, and got it wrong at the same time.

Original work: https://petervelnl.blogspot.com/2021/11/vision-encoding-language.html

Getting it wrong: Red should be the Chevron as a metaphor for fire, Yellow should be Circle as a metaphor for Sun, Blue should be line as a metaphor for the sky + horizon.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I'm not a 100% sure it does, the choice of symbols looks a bit suspicious but it could be independently invented from ColorAdd idea like the one you linked. Symbolism is hard to standardise, maybe a chevron for blue has another meaning for the author

    Edit: or more realistically, they had this problem and decided to solve it with AI and publish their solution for everyone without checking if the solution already existed and was partially copied by AI. That's the feeling I get from the repository at least

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    It's more likely that both are derived from ColorADD, but the idea is also simple enough, conceptually, that they all could have thought of it independently.

    Getting it wrong: Red should be the Chevron as a metaphor for fire, Yellow should be Circle as a metaphor for Sun, Blue should be line as a metaphor for the sky + horizon.

    The problem with requiring that your symbols are metaphors for things is that those things may not relate to the context in which you are using the symbols. At which point it just adds confusion to say that the yellow symbol represents the sun.

    Additionally, people are never going to agree on what should represent what, as you yourself demonstrate; the author explicitly rejects that the blue symbol should be the metaphor for sky, yet for you it apparently felt like the best choice:

    For blue, there are two obvious choices. The sky and the water. Water makes a more practical choice since the sky is inherently formless, and therefore quite difficult to represent symbolically.

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