There are so many ways to address this issue. Perhaps the simplest would be to 
use a combination of dimming and thick, solid borders vs. dashed borders to 
distinguish the two states of the icons. Cheers! MM

On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Kevin Cowtan wrote:

> Better still, I can let you see them though my eyes. Here's what the icons 
> look like to me, and a link to Vizcheck, the tool I used to generate them:
> 
> http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/colour/pdb/pdb.html
> 
> http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php
> 
> Running this in various modes you should be able to pick colours which work 
> for everyone, not just for me.
> 
> Flip Hoedemaeker wrote:
>> Yep, its green-blue vs grey... Bad choice I guess? Perhaps you can provide a 
>> set of examples that work for you?
>> Flip
>> On 7/15/2010 13:20, Kevin Cowtan wrote:
>>> Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
>>>> For a five-minute illustrated introduction to PDBprints (including
>>>> instructions on how to include them in your own webpages) point your
>>>> browser to:
>>>> 
>>>> http://pdbe.org/pdbprints
>>> 
>>> Good idea.
>>> 
>>> But the icons for published/unpublished, protein present/protein absent,
>>> nucleotide present/nucleotide absent and ligand present/ligand absent
>>> look identical to me - I have to read the alt text.
>>> 
>>> Is there some colour thing going on here which is invisible to protanopes?
>>> 
> 
> 
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