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Nature 445, 364 (25 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445364d; Published online 24 January 2007

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Magenta and yellow in images is not a bright idea

John Runions1

  1. School of Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK

Chris Miall, in Correspondence ("Readers see red over low-impact graphics" Nature 455, 147; 2007), points out that a small but significant proportion of the population have difficulty distinguishing colours in red/green images. For this reason, several journals now require images to be published in other colour pairs, the most common being magenta and yellow.

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