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I suspect that no single color combination is ideally suitable for both color-blind individuals and those with typical color vision. The advantages of certain color pairs (whether yellow-blue or magenta-green) will likely depend on the context in which they are applied. The value of correspondence such as this one is to raise awareness that as many as 8 percent of men experience the common form of red-green color-blindness, and we need to strive to make information represented by color as widely accessible as possible.

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Figure 1: Alternatives to red-green color coding in false color images.

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