/r/ColorBlind

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For people who see the world differently

Welcome to r/colorblind!

This is a community to share your experiences and anecdotes with colourblindness, and how it affects your life.

This community is to offer resources for both colourblind and people with normal vision for better awareness and understanding of this condition. We have custom flair available above to signal what type of colourblindness you have or if you have "Normal Vision" too!


Unsure if you are colourblind or not? There are various tests on the internet, but note that they are not always accurate, and your computer monitor might display colours incorrectly, giving incorrect results.

Here are a few web-based tests

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/colorblindnesstest.html

http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/

https://colormax.org/color-blind-test/

https://colorlitelens.com/color-blindness-test.htm

https://www.colorlitelens.com/mosaic-test.html / https://www.colorlitelens.com/tritan-color-blind-test

The best way to find out if you are colourblind is to go to your optometrist and ask for a printed Ishihara Colour Vision Deficiency test.

Color blindness/Colourblindness can be spelled however you like as long as the point gets across. For clarity, if you mean "being able to see no colour at all" please point that out clearly or use "total color blindness".


Please feel free to message the moderators (or just submit a post) if you have any questions, comments, or problems with r/colorblind!


Rules:

  1. All content should be somehow relevant to color blindness.

  2. Do not encourage users to break the ToS of Reddit. Anyone breaking reddiquette will be reported to the admins.

  3. Repetitive topics will be removed, you should use the search function before posting. Repetitive topics covers anything that the community feels is posted too much. Yes, we have heard about Enchroma glasses..

  4. No racism/sexism/homophobia or other hate based speech. Directly calling out or providing enough information to cause a witch-hunt of another user is not allowed.

  5. Memes are allowed, but nothing too rude or offensive. This includes "F*ck the colorblind" memes, they are banned.

  6. Posts of Vision Tests/Ishihara Plates must include the Normal Color Vision result in the Title or Comments before people need to ask what it is.

 

We may modify these at any time, keep an eye out in the sidebar.


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My first plate tritan reverse coment please

6 Comments
2025/02/04
08:22 UTC

1

Can anybody tell me what these test results mean?

https://preview.redd.it/4hiuukdieyge1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=41e3645a622f4d9bf1499050c4cd1641a1a06cf0

I've tried looking it up, but I'm not getting anything useful. Does anybody know what this means? It says that the highest score is zero, but I'm unsure what the highest number possible is, so I don't know what 88 means.

6 Comments
2025/02/03
16:52 UTC

1

Need software developer primarily python opencv

Working on a solution to help color blind people see and distinguish more colors using opencv and ar anyone willing to join can dm me

0 Comments
2025/02/03
11:04 UTC

1

Dark brown vs. Dark blue vs black

If I have three pairs of the same style of slacks in three colors, dark blue, dark brown, and black, even held up on bright sunshine next to each other all three look black. Also, I didn't realize I had trouble with dark brown until a couple of years ago 40f when I mentioned my dad's hair being black, and my mom and dad both insisted his hair is dark brown. Even knowing that it's supposedly brown, it still looks black to me like it always has.

As far as I know, other colors vision is not a problem for me. According to Google AI, mixing those three colors up is a sign of colorblindness, but it doesn't give any more details. I'm curious, and love researching obscure topics. Does anyone know if this color trio is a specific type of color blindness?

2 Comments
2025/02/03
05:13 UTC

83

Good thing influenza activity levels are so low

23 Comments
2025/02/03
04:33 UTC

2

Creating an app to diagnose severity of red green color blindness and recolor images to better distinguish contrast based on the severity. Testers needed.

Hi all, title basically describes it all. We are in need of people to help test out our application for a senior computer science project. If you have deuteranopia or protanopia please dm me if you would be willing to help out.

0 Comments
2025/02/03
02:43 UTC

6

Does anyone here have normal color vision in one eye and dichromacy of some type in the other?

I was wondering if anyone here has normal color vision in one eye and a type of dichromacy, such as protanopia, deuteranopia, or tritanopia in the other. If so how do the colors you can see in your dichromatic eye correspond to the colors you see in your eye that has normal color vision?

6 Comments
2025/02/02
16:50 UTC

8

Seen AF

Color blindness may be common, but I feel like it’s a conversation that only comes up with people who aren’t.. Maybe it’s cuz I’m old and Reddit is new to me, but it’s so liberating to see others fielding familiar obstacles/questions. Nothing earth-shattering. Only a few, very minor inconveniences but they make up a whole world no one else knows about! I’d love to hear some stories… I rejected the ROYGBIV concept in the first grade, which eventually lead to a diagnosis. Being a female, the doctor wrote me off initially but my family knew. How’d you find out?

3 Comments
2025/02/02
08:46 UTC

3

Which color or colors appears darkest to you, and what type of color blindness do you have?

https://preview.redd.it/tvuvc10ljlge1.jpg?width=452&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b52a23878f0de261ea223c90ef719ed543c4aaa3

I’m wondering if colorblindness could affect which of these colors appears darkest given that it tends to involve missing certain cones.

10 Comments
2025/02/01
21:37 UTC

24

Are you human or deer?

11 Comments
2025/02/01
21:15 UTC

5

Hi ....some help needed

Does anybody remember a user called u/josko987 here? Was a really active member in this sub reddit. Maybe anyone of the moderators or old grop members can recall?

0 Comments
2025/02/01
19:26 UTC

7

Colorblind Boyfriend

So I recently started dating a guy who has every form of incomplete color blindness. I don’t fully understand it, but I know he doesn’t see in black and white, he just has a lot of trouble differentiating colors and gets them mixed up. This is where my question comes in: what color combinations can I wear that he might actually be able to see? I wear a lot of blues and I know he can usually see that on its own, but I want him to be able to look at me and not be confused as often as possible. I also have red hair, and I know he can see that. I care about him a lot and I thought it’d be nice to put some outfits together that he can fully appreciate.

32 Comments
2025/02/01
18:42 UTC

1

The Monthly Bandwagon Post

Hello, Everyone!

It's time for the monthly Bandwagon post. If you would like to post a color wheel, interesting Ishihara test result, your attempt at sorting candy or crayons by color, funny colorblind t-shirt/print/art (without a link to buy it) or anything of the sort - this is the place to do it. These monthly posts are still being evaluated to determine the best way to go with them, so have fun and submit whatever you want to contribute that doesn't suit a full standalone post!

0 Comments
2025/02/01
00:01 UTC

4

What is "protan"?

So the thing I've been seeing as yellow is actually green? What...

4 Comments
2025/01/29
07:26 UTC

19

Birkenstock not making it easy

If I zoom right in I can see a difference but I still can’t tell which is which. Not asking for help btw, just find it frustrating

9 Comments
2025/01/29
05:57 UTC

14

Unripe bananas the death of me

I’m currently designing an app to improve the way colorblind individuals interact with the world, inspired by the existing apps on the market. My goal is to create something more intuitive and helpful for tasks like identifying colors. The amount of unripe bananas I have eaten at this point bc I can't tell the color has driven me to the edge.

To make this app as effective as possible, I’d love input from the community! If you have 2 minutes to spare, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a look at my design and share your thoughts.

Shoot me a DM if you’re interested in helping out—it would mean the world to me and others in the colorblind community!

6 Comments
2025/01/29
01:35 UTC

0

How do I know if I'm Protan or Deutan?

So, at this point I'm pretty sure I'm mildly colorblind I can't be fully certain since my diagnosis will be in March or April but I'm fairly sure. and I'm not sure if I'm Protan or Deutan. The colors I struggle with the most are orange and red pink and red brown and beige (didn't really know there was much of a difference) pink and purple and occasionally blue and purple and gray and some other colors.

28 Comments
2025/01/28
23:45 UTC

3

Cyberpunk outfit help

Tried my best at a yellow/black/blue outfit but I struggle with yellow/green, blue/purple, and black/dark colors. Just need to know what doesn't match if anything

18 Comments
2025/01/28
20:59 UTC

1

ColorLift App: Generate accessible descriptions of on-screen colors using AI

Hey everyone,

I've developed an app called ColorLift. It's a free tool for Windows and macOS (but firstly you need to have access to a large language model API) that lets you pick any color on your screen and provides an AI-generated description of that color. My hope is that ColorLift can assist others in the colorblind community by making color identification a bit easier.

You can check it out here: ColorLift on GitHub (EN))

https://preview.redd.it/k65imkbqaofe1.png?width=1040&format=png&auto=webp&s=4ab9d957c6755682dd6350e4acbb6c797dab7e48

Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!

4 Comments
2025/01/28
05:47 UTC

4

Do any of these look white, black, or gray to you and what type of color blindness do you have?

https://preview.redd.it/2is3mschnnfe1.jpg?width=807&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7159f354b2b363fee8f76a9cb837659893acabc

If they look gray are do they look dark or light gray? If not black, white, or gray is the only difference between these colors and black, white, and gray how light or dark these colors are?

14 Comments
2025/01/28
03:42 UTC

1

Passing on a Ishihara but falling on the anomaloscope

Hi guys. Is it possible to pass an Ishihara test with a score of 100% and have a protanomaly diagnosis in an anomaloscope? Because that just happened to me for a pilot medical certificate. What does it might mean? Thank you.

6 Comments
2025/01/27
14:57 UTC

1

Color blind people

If i were to create a lighting unit with a target audience of colorblind people, can anyone with any type of colorblindness explain how little or how much lightning affects visibility of colors they can't see properly and what would their idea of a effective lightning unit be. And whether the level of lighting in a lighting unit affect how well or not well you view colors.

7 Comments
2025/01/27
11:18 UTC

14

Normal vision and tritan can you see this plate

65 Comments
2025/01/27
06:00 UTC

2

papi light distinguish

i have a weak color blind and can distinguish papillight well when flying, but it is a little more difficult to distinguish when the backlight or sunlight is strong. Can I use chromagen lenses? I've used encroma sunglasses, but I don't know if it's very helpful

2 Comments
2025/01/27
04:24 UTC

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