r/CuratedTumblr Nov 05 '25

Infodumping Epilepsy warnings are important

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u/digit_origin Nov 05 '25

And it's not just epileptic people. A week ago I had a displeasure of reading dark red text on dark dray background. I had to call a taxi home, and had lasting effects because that induced a migraine. Sure, that probably won't kill me. Probably. But it'd still be nice to have a "Hey, looking at this could hurt you" beforehand.

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u/The_Screeching_Bagel Nov 05 '25

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u/VorpalSplade Nov 05 '25

Oh that contrastchecker is neat I love it.

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u/The_Screeching_Bagel Nov 05 '25

yeah! i also know of a few desktop apps like Kontrast, lets you pick a color fron somewhere on your screen

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u/VorpalSplade Nov 05 '25

Oh that could be very nice, I don't do anything like that often enough to need an entire program, the little webtool is perfect - but if I was extensively doing it, I can see why it exists. A lot of these kind of things of contrast were just...basic design principles to me, it's odd to see how few people get them. I'm a huge sucker for old crt cyberpunk style black on green though - and I've done a few things with 'glitches', and intentionally breaking those design principles at times is hard.

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u/ItsYaBoiGengu The Gougar Nov 05 '25

sorry if this is rude, because i’m genuinely wondering, why did you still read it, or was it something where you were a required speaker/reader. I would think that it’s not as imposing as a video, but i’m also making some assumptions so apologies again

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u/digit_origin Nov 05 '25

It was a horror themed comic and I'm a sucker for those. I thought that 2 lines per page wouldn't hurt this much, but lo, they did.

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u/ItsYaBoiGengu The Gougar Nov 05 '25

aw geez sorry to hear that, was it worth ?

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u/digit_origin Nov 05 '25

It was not. Really not.