Color Scheme

[ShoesBologna 7]

So, I'm blue green color blind.  I've been having a hard time seeing the difference between traditional and multi caches.  It happened today for the third time.  I got to a cache, and then as I was reading the description more and more, I realized that it was a multi.  

I can take care of this myself by reading the logs more throughly prior to heading toward a cache, but I just wanted to throw it out there in case you haven't thought about it.

 

Thanks and happy caching.  

[Nic Hubbard 650]

Two thing you could do to make this easier:

 

First, when tapping on a map pin or seeing a cache in the list view, Multi's will also have an icon with two containers next to each other. Traditions only have one larger container in the icon. Next, you can tap the gear icon on the right side of the search field. This will allow you to remove Multi's from your search, or filter the search in a different way. This way you could remove Multi's altogether if you would like.

 

Does this help?

[ShoesBologna 7]

Indeed it does, and those are already things that I do.  

I was just bringing it up. 

 

Thanks for everything.

 

Love the app.

[Nic Hubbard 650]

Indeed it does, and those are already things that I do.  

I was just bringing it up. 

 

Thanks for bringing that to our attention!

[Justustwo 3]

The icon for user location can be misssed as it is very similar to other colours on the map. Needs to be bright, red or something so it tands out more. 

 

[Nic Hubbard 650]

14 hours ago, Justustwo said:

The icon for user location can be misssed as it is very similar to other colours on the map. Needs to be bright, red or something so it tands out more. 

Are you having a hard time seeing it?

[Justustwo 3]

When it's amongst other icons of caches it gets lost. So yes difficult to see and locate.

[Nic Hubbard 650]

5 hours ago, Justustwo said:

When it's amongst other icons of caches it gets lost. So yes difficult to see and locate.

I will see what we can do about adjusting that color and still making it fit with the look of the app.

[finkenmann 0]

Hi

I have the same problem. I’m red/green color blind and don't see any difference in the colors between traditional and multi cache. The contrast for my eyes is absolutely identical, so there is no chance for me to make a difference between a darker and lighter color. I copied a screenshot to photoshop and there i saw, that the multi is orange and the traditional cache is green. If you could use a bright yellow for the multi, that would be a great and would help color blind people, like me. (See attachment). But there are diffent kinds of color blindness. Symbols would even much better ;-)

But all in all. Its a great app. Thank you so much for your work.

Regards from Switzerland

[Nic Hubbard 650]

45 minutes ago, finkenmann said:

But there are diffent kinds of color blindness. Symbols would even much better ;-)

But all in all. Its a great app. Thank you so much for your work.

Thank you for bringing this up. In iOS 10 Apple provides a way for users with color blindness to fix the color problems. Please see:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/09/enable-screen-filters-help-color-blindness-ios-10.html

Let me know if this helps with Cachly.

[brcross95 1]

CITO events are hard to distinguish on the map from traditional caches. 

[Nic Hubbard 650]

2 hours ago, brcross95 said:

CITO events are hard to distinguish on the map from traditional caches. 

Agree. This will be fixed in 2.1.

[finkenmann 0]

@Nic Yepp. It helped a little bit. But still hard to see a difference. Specialy in sun light. Other apps are looking horrible because it changes the colors a lot.

[Nic Hubbard 650]

6 hours ago, finkenmann said:

@Nic Yepp. It helped a little bit. But still hard to see a difference. Specialy in sun light. Other apps are looking horrible because it changes the colors a lot.

We will continue to evaluate how we can improve this for users.