Age-related changes in the visibility rating of achromatic web safe colors

Abstract

Age-related changes in the visibility rating of several web-safe color combinations were examined using a paired comparison. Fifty-one subjects ranging from ages 20s to 70s were recruited. We found that color combination ranking has a positive monotonic relationship with sensation magnitude in all ages. This indicates that the visibilities of color combinations can be rated by the luminance pairs of foreground and background colors.