20110317
Abacus believes that communications is paramount to understand the needs of its clients. There are many forms of communications that are simply not used because of impracticality. Faxes are one such impractical way to communicate. Information in within Faxes can not be easily transferred as they contain only low resolution images of the sender's intent. For this reason Abacus does not accept Faxed documents. We realize this may be an inconvenience for a small minority, but it is necessary to ensure that all of our clients receive the best service possible.
20110310
What your clients cant see will hurt you
Did you know that one in twelve people interpret colors they are seeing incorrectly due to some sort of color deficiency. When Abacus designs for WebSites, we keep this in that a small section of the population will not be able to see the site as intended. That's a lot of people that most other companies completely ignore.
Understanding color blindness is crucial in design for obvious reasons. Color vision is pretty complicated. If you're not color-deficient or color-blind then it's hard to understand what color-blind people see. There are four kinds of color vision:
Regular vision is Trichromatic, meaning it implements the three color receptors (Red-Green-Blue). In practice, the cone cells in your eyes are called L, M and S (for long, medium and short wavelength reception), but the colors they interpret is actually closer to Yellow, Green and Blue. The wavelengths eyes interpret are vastly overlapping, so green light hits all three in varying degrees (and all wavelengths hit your rod cells).
Anomalous Trichromat is when individuals use all three color receptors but reception of one pigment is skewed and less sensitive. A Dichromatic aberration is when vision is only two of the three light wavelengths is interpreted. When most people say color blind a Monochromatic vision abnormality is the most extreme case. Some might call this seeing in gray-scale where very low color recognition is experienced.
Now this might sound very confusing which is the reason many so called designers don't bother to consider it in their work. Abacus takes this very seriously since the wrong color combination can make a design seem completely uncomprehendable, let alone get your message across. If someone can't see your website, then it is useless.
Understanding color blindness is crucial in design for obvious reasons. Color vision is pretty complicated. If you're not color-deficient or color-blind then it's hard to understand what color-blind people see. There are four kinds of color vision:
Regular vision is Trichromatic, meaning it implements the three color receptors (Red-Green-Blue). In practice, the cone cells in your eyes are called L, M and S (for long, medium and short wavelength reception), but the colors they interpret is actually closer to Yellow, Green and Blue. The wavelengths eyes interpret are vastly overlapping, so green light hits all three in varying degrees (and all wavelengths hit your rod cells).
Anomalous Trichromat is when individuals use all three color receptors but reception of one pigment is skewed and less sensitive. A Dichromatic aberration is when vision is only two of the three light wavelengths is interpreted. When most people say color blind a Monochromatic vision abnormality is the most extreme case. Some might call this seeing in gray-scale where very low color recognition is experienced.
Now this might sound very confusing which is the reason many so called designers don't bother to consider it in their work. Abacus takes this very seriously since the wrong color combination can make a design seem completely uncomprehendable, let alone get your message across. If someone can't see your website, then it is useless.
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