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Comment by mouse_

17 hours ago

Rainbow parentheses blew my mind. Why isn't every editor already doing this?

Terrible idea for color-blind people. And I don't even mean severely color-blind, like when you can't distiguish red from green at all, but something more common and less severe, like deuteranomaly - where it's shades of these colors that are hard to distinguish.

  • The color blind would still see the parenthesis at least like they see them currently without the color coding though, given they are distinguishable from the background by lightness.

  • Those people are able to distinguish suggested colors - the example is using primary colors. And at worst, it would be the same as all parenthesis being the same color (black).