Planet Quark

A large number of people have a color vision deficiency — about eight percent of males and three percent of females.

The free Color Oracle applies a color filter to everything on your display so you can see your designs as if viewed by a person with a color vision deficiency.

It’s a useful way to be sure that your designs can be read by the widest possible audience, and is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

If you enjoy looking at old business signage as much as I do, you’ll appreciate “Society In Decline Project: Intrastate Commerce“, a collection of more than 450 photos of well-preserved, vintage signs on businesses. 

Most of them feature neon illumination, although the photos are taken in the daytime. You may even see a sign you recognize. (I did!). 

See it on Flickr here.

Wasn’t that year 2008 something? I’m hoping for an “understatement of the year” award, so if you know of any, please enter this post for me.