I read today of all the new skin tones and sliders coming to the Sims 4 in December. The additional customization is welcomed, but are there any plans to help out us color-blind folks? The ability to see hex codes, color names, rgb values, or something of that nature to help us sort out what colors are what (not just for skin tones, but for everything) would be amazing. Right now, I'm using a third party application that helps me see these.
@SMRieth , wow! That is a good idea! 💡🙌 I can see how a hex value would be really handy for colorblind people, regardless of the type of colorblindness! 😀
Absolutely! My husband is color blind and he always needs help with his builds because he cannot see the colors. Even if there was an option to enable the code or something along those lines to help color blind folks choose their best option.
Hi! As a color blind individual sometimes building in the sims can be very frustrating especially because each item has unique swatches and such. The color filters in the catalog, although they are useful, are severely limited. I believe an overhaul to this system is much needed. One idea I had was the possibility to add a feature in which when a player is hovering their mouse over a swatch it tells them the name of the color or what color family it falls under. if the sims wants to continue to address such a diverse community this adjustment is needed in order to further expand its accessibility to this audience.
edit: since making this post i have noticed in build mode that some items don't show up at all when color filters are applied. Secondly, in CAS when color filters are applied only opne swatch of every item shows up but in build mode when you apply the filter every item shows up in every shade.
plenty of games have some basic colorblind mode, or were designed with other ways of differentiating colours other than just looking at them as a person with typical colour vision. it really bothers me having to ask someone for help when I am trying to customise something in video games. like, whose decision was it to not label the colours? it's such a simple thing to do. it's one of the few times i feel like colourblindness is a disability, it feels similar to how someone with mobility aid might feel if a building they needed to go into didn't have a ramp for wheelchairs. the sims 4 is one of the best in the industry when it comes to representation of minority groups, but it somehow doesn't have a basic feature most other modern games i play have either by default or an option in settings. there's a whole accessibility tab in the options page of the game, but the only setting is to adjust the UI. why not add a colourblindness setting to justify the existence of an accessibility tab? If UI size is the only thing in there, it may as well just be put into the graphics tab or something. idk, I just wanna be able to know what colour i am looking at.
110% agree, excellently put. many other modern games have a colorblind support of some sort, and most of em rely less on colour in the first place. Fortnite has an excellent colourblind filter, i'm certain EA is capable of solving this problem that has been solved before many times.
Features to help simmers with colour blindness would be very helpful. It would help them a lot when building in the game. Many simmers experience colourblindness and it would help them in their enjoyment of the game.
