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Color Universal Design

Also known as: CUD, Colour Universal Design

A set of guidelines and principles developed to ensure that colour use in designs, products, and environments is accessible to people with all types of colour vision, including those with colour vision deficiency. Color Universal Design emphasizes selecting colour palettes that are distinguishable across all CVD types, using redundant encoding, and providing colour name labels. It represents a proactive design approach that considers colour accessibility from the outset rather than retrofitting designs after problems are identified.

Category: Visual Accessibility · Design · Universal Design

Related: Colour Vision Deficiency · Redundant Encoding · Colour Palette Generation · Universal Design

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