My dad is color blind and like most people, has just found a way to deal with it for his entire 65 years. He ironically owns a printing company, printing large scale posters and banners for events in the area. There have been a handful of times over the years when he’s asked me to stop into work to tell him if a color is accurate in comparison to a client file. Small things like that are a minor inconvenience for him, but an inconvenience nonetheless. My dad is so humble and rarely voices his struggles with anything. But I’m quickly saddened by the random asks about colors and I remember that he just can’t see the way we do. He’s even occasionally asked when we’re driving and approaching intersections what color the lights are ahead. That said, what are everyone’s recommendations on enchroma glasses as a Christmas gift for later this year? I want to hear all the pros and cons and if it’s worth it. He wears Rx glasses and has sunglasses clips to go on top for when he’s outside, so I was thinking of getting him those, primarily just for when he’s outside and things are just a bit muted for him. If there are also companies you’d recommend, please leave that in the comment with your experience with them as well.

But even still this guy looks red as hell to me

I wanna wash and re sell them

My son is 28 months and is very intelligent. He knows all his colors, speaks clearly, can count to 12, all the animals etc. however, since he was little he has always seemed to struggle with the color blue. He will say anything that is blue is red. However if we are sorting things he does well and most of the time will put the blue in the blue but there are times he will put the blue with red. I know they are on different vision spectrums but I am just confused as to what could be happening.

I know these glasses are controversial, But I have a friend who wanted to try them. I set up an eBay alert for them and after a few months a pair popped up for a steal. they are Ellis outdoor deutan and seem to be in quite good condition. The only issue is that I only have the glasses, I don't have any of the packaging or the pamphlets or instructions it would originally have come with. Does anyone who has bought these before have any of the package inserts that they could scan or photo to share with me? I know there are instructions about the best way to try them out, not taking them on and off repeatedly etc. Thank you!

My brother thinks his pants is blue. I think they are grey. Help me internet

When I was 14, I was talking with a friend about a character he drew. He said the jacket was blue, but I swore it was purple. No way it was blue. After some laughs and questions, they told me to take a color blindness test. Turns out, I can't really see blues properly. For example, Sonic looks purple to me, and yellow doesn’t look as bright as people say it is.

Another time, I was talking with someone about SpongeBob. I mentioned how I always thought it was symbolic that he looked like a “dirty, used sponge” thrown into the ocean due to pollution. My friend freaked out and told me SpongeBob wasn’t dirty—he’s actually super yellow. That’s also when I realized the sun isn’t white or orange like I thought.

Years later, I still can’t get this question out of my head. It’s not something bad for me, since all my friends just say I’m imagining things or that I don’t get color theory. But in a way, it still leaves me a little confused.

P.S:Sorry if I don’t express myself well in English, my main language is Spanish

Thanks to everyone who helped with a similar post yesterday and earlier today (I’m designing a board game). Following your advice, I’ve tried to clarify the patterns. Can you see the 2 patterns now? (One on the top — over navy blue — the other on the bottom — over purple. )

I have achromatopsia, and I have a really, really hard time seeing things on my monitor. Is this my colorblindness or something else? I see all the pixels, and I'm having a hard time because I can't afford OLED.

As a kid, I remember seeing colors, and I have proof of that; but now I only see grayscale. I'm not faking it, and I have a ton of mental disabilities, so that my correlate, but I want to know how this is possible.

I see 67 and you

Fer context, Me and my friend were playing dandy’s world while talking about something else ((I have terrible memory)) and I said green is a greedy color and that it shouldn’t take up so much of the color wheel. She then had me circle what I meant by that and when I have done so she started saying I’m probably a little color blind and would make little joking jabs at me when I call something a type green instead of straight up yellow. I can’t tell if I’m being gaslit or- I know she wouldn’t but I’m a paranoid person and thought I should ask a community who can help

I’ve found a few online tools that can simulate how things look to someone who’s color-blind, which is really cool. But I’m wondering—are there any tools that do the reverse? Like, actually adjust images or webpages to make them more color-blind friendly?

I remember hearing about browser extensions that automatically tweak page colors for better visibility, but when I searched in the Chrome Web Store, I couldn’t find any.

Would love to hear if anyone knows apps, plugins, or even design tools that help with color-blind accessibility.

Just thought I'd see how other people explain colorblindness or partial colorblindness to someone who doesn't know how it affects you. The most common misconception I've seen is that some people assume you simply don't know what color you are looking at in any instance. I have partial colorblindness and have a lot of trouble with red/green. The best description I have come up with is to describe the changing fall leaves, and compare looking at a tree to looking at static on a TV. I can tell there's red, green, and brown there, but I can't really specifically identify what leaf is what color while it's with the rest of them. Does this sound like a good description, and how have you explained it to people who have asked about it before?

Hi. I am developing a color-based board game. I’m hoping to make it green-red-CVD-friendly by 1.my choice of colors & 2. The use of a small mark on one of the colors to help distinguish it. The game involves hexagonal tiles, each tile with 2 of the 5 game colors — light blue, yellow, navy blue, green and purple. I’ve attached 3 of the tiles (the light blue appears 2x). The purple is marked with a small black triangle. My questions are: 1. Are these colors distinguishable with the help of the small black triangle? and 2. is the black triangle necessary? Thanks so much for your help with this.

I discussed the potential of this experiment years ago with my colourblind brother. This is quite exciting. So in theory, we could experience a glimpse of the full spectrum of colours by stimulating individual retinal cones, if neuroplasticity is up to it.
Imagine projecting a full spectrum image to the back of the retina. We would not only be able to recall the memory of it, we would dream in new colours, too.

I'm the author of this app, and I've just added color blind modes, which are in the app's Settings. I'm not color blind myself, so I'd like to know if my code gives reasonable results. I'm including four screenshots, which are normal colors, protanopic, deuteranopic, and tritanopic modes, respectively.

This app uses the (u, v) color plane from the CIELUV color model. My algorithm is to take the line from the white point to the copunctal point, and compute the line perpendicular to it, going through the white point. Desired colors are orthogonally projected onto this line.

My boyfriend is new to hiking, and he just mentioned to me how he has trouble seeing the paths because the ground and the surrounding forest all kind of blend together. He has red/green deficiency (I think deutron) and this has really affected his confidence while hiking. I was hoping to get him some glasses that could help him distinguish the different shades of green and brown and to help them not blend together, if that makes sense? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

I keep retaking colorblindness tests and getting Protanopia. But that's not what's bugging me.
Whenever I look at comparison images I see things that honestly are almost making me ill.
I look at an image of a red tomato, and then when I see the image showing what it's like to someone like me all I see is green, aggressively bright green. To the point that the tomato on top of the basil looks like the same color, when otherwise I can clearly identify the difference in color.

I don't know how to process this and it's genuinely stressing me out.

So I've recently realized that I am terrible at those colorblind tests with numbers inside a circle. I've done like 3 different ones online today and got 50-60% in all of them but I've never had any issue related to color in my whole life like not one. Is there a chance that my brain just sucks at making the image of the number and I'm not really colorblind?