Color Blindness and HP Prime keys color choice

[Kevin]

(10-15-2014 05:17 PM)dbbotkin Wrote:  Cursing the darkness vs. lighting a candle

I bought a Prime and also found the keys hard to see in virtually any light, but worse in direct, bright light due to the reflection from the shiny silver killing whatever contrast there was on the key-face.

My solution: remove the silver overlay. Carefully . . .. Cleaning of the remaining adhesive (most came off with the metal) with a toothpick yielded a 100% improvement in visibility.

For those handy with tools, there are more elegant solutions, but the silver is the problem, not the key color.
Note: I can almost hear the marketing meeting; "an all-black Prime looks too much like a TI-npire! We have to distinguish our product; make the bottom half silver!"

Is there any chance you could show us a picture of the 'silver overlay' removed for us to judge contrast?

I think we're all agreed that the legibility of the blue and orange is a serious problem that HP should resolve as soon as possible.

For me, the orange is so bad that I would certainly buy a clear plastic overlay or failing that, be driven to fine-painting alphabetical symbols directly onto the aluminium above the relevant key in a strongly contrasting colour/tone!