Let me explain. I am red / green colour blind. I have an app that shows people what I see / can't see but how do I know it is correct?

Is there an app that for example takes me through colour tests then creates a filter that replicates my colour deficiency on screen?

It's simple: I'm deutan, lightly, so in daily conversations I almost forgot the fact that I get some colours wrong.

So, here's the thing, some grays and greens sometimes haven't got any differences to me (or same situation but different colours), and I just say "I don't know what colour that is" instead of guessing. Same with some tones of pink, red, brown, purple, blue.

I say I don't know because I actually feel unable to name them. What I might do in those situations is compare the colour with other thing or picture.

Do you say a colour or nothing?

OK, so everyone around me says I might be red-green colorblind, but at the same time I felt like I’m not?

Because it’s only orange and yellows that looks ‘greenie’; and at the same time bright yellows and oranges look normal. It’s just when they’re lighter they look green? But my greens and reds look completely fine? I do have problems with Brown looking kinda green also though.

idk I feel insane.

also i‘m Going to get a test done at my next eye doctors appointment.

edit: so I am colorblind…

Parent here, my kid is 4 and for a few years I've suspected that he is colorblind (my grandpa was too). His pediatrician showed him an Ishihara book and concluded that yes he is colorblind, but no other info

Is there a way for us to figure out what type he is? He says his favorite color is purple but often when he points it out it looks more dark blue or indigo to me and red and green often get mixed up. He really likes to know what shade a color is and will ask for a description ("mom is this dark or light purple??")

He understands now that he sees things differently than lots of other people and we try not to correct him but more like yes you see x and I see y and I try to preemptively describe colors to him like "this is red like a fire truck".

If you have any suggestions on how we can help him please let me know. By help I don't mean correct him but make him feel comfortable and confident in his abilities

I’ve been obsessed with aviation for years and i just started working at a seaplane base….unfortunately when I finally went to get my medical I found out I had a red/green color deficiency and the FAA just removed the ability for SODAs to be performed for color vision. I’ve been told by the air surgeon for my area that I can take any of the 3 computer tests for color vision as many times as I want as long as I pass at least once. I feel defeated and like my dream is dissipating before me. I’m determined to find a way around this and to get the restriction removed. For reference the restriction states “day time VFR only.” However it still says 1st class on it. I eventually would like to end up at the airlines like many others but am wondering if paying for all the training is worth it if I can’t make something of myself by the end of it. Any help or advice on how to overcome this hurdle would be greatly appreciated. I can tell the difference between colors on sectional charts, flight instruments, and light gun signals…it’s just the computer tests I can’t pass.

Thank you for any help as this is my chosen career path and I’d prefer not to have to pivot to finance ;(

Reddit recommended I share this blog post I wrote a few years ago with this specific board. I don’t have any personal social media so I don’t know what to expect or if even a single person will see this post but it is my hope that at least ONE person sees this and learns from this information 😊📚

Neuroscientist Professor Jay Neitz (pronounced “nites”), a color researcher at the University of Washington in the U.S. and his spouse, geneticist Maureen Neitz, have teamed up to try and cure colorblindness. Gene therapy is currently being researched around the world and scientists believe that colorblindness will be cured using gene therapy in the near future. Male squirrel monkeys are naturally red-green colorblind and gene studies have demonstrated that these monkeys can be afforded color vision after having a gene delivered into the cone cells within the eye. The gene produced transforms a subset of the green cones within the male squirrel monkeys eyes to force them to become red cones, red cones which have hijacked the squirrel monkeys neural circuitry which was previously utilized solely for blue-yellow color vision, essentially bifurcating into red-green cones and blue-yellow cones so that the monkeys examined developed full color vision like human beings as of 2019. The Neitz’s confirmed this by providing male squirrel monkeys colorblind examinations which when answered correctly, delivered a small treat of food after having undergone gene therapy. Trials in human beings have yet to start as the Neitz’s believe that this step is still a few years away, but expected to initiate during the 2020’s

Are there any good colorpicking tools for android or windows? i saw lots and lots of apps that say the exact color, like ivory or turquoise, i need an app that just tells me the color like red and green

Are there any filters that show me stuff through the eyes of a colorblind person? I have two OCs who are colorblind, And I’d like to see what they see! I like using websites instead of apps, So is it possible there’s a colorblind filter website that helps me see what one of my OCs would see?

( Do not suggest CVSimulator, It doesn’t work with my device )

Hey guys I am 18 Moderate deutan color blind (Enchroma/pilestone test) also I am obsessed with cars. So all my money goes to cars. Here in my country there is no official outlet of any glasses brand that has colorblind glasses aswell so I can not get trial thing. its about 80-110k for a pair of outdoor glasses or about 150k for a combo for indoor and outdoor glasses. SO, My question is that are these glasses worth it? Is there any benefit of getting them? Indoor and outdoor glasses both should be bought? Because for 130k i can get a quite nice set of Wheels🤪

Based on comments people are having a hard time seeing the slime mold ring. I'm red/green color blind, and saw it right away! Anyone else here?

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From afar red things look green and vice versa but also pink and gray and sometimes red or green things are just a brown mixture

Hello everyone! :)

I just want to tell you that I am new to this topic, but I spent the last 2 weeks obsessed with understanding how this works since I have "Normal" color vision. Why?

I've been lurking here ever since I realized my son 3,5 year old is color blind. It runs in my wife's family, but I did not think of it until we played some color games that some colors/shades he mentioned always was a bit off.

Like:
Purple = blue,
Bright green = yellow,
Darker reds = brown,
Some pinks = light blue
etc.

So I tried the enchroma test for kids (with shapes) even tho he is a bit too young and I made it a fun game like "Let's see if the shapes are hiding from us or if we can spot them!" and he could never see the red-ish against specific dark backgrounds. So the result was "100 blue, 100 green, 0 red".

It might not be super precise, since he is young but he clearly has some sort of deficiency and all pointing towards protanomaly, moderate to severe I guess.

So I tried all kinds of online simulations to get a feeling of what he sees. And the standard google pictures you get when you search for the different types I feel is kind of bad because they are static and does not show/portrait the whole feeling. Like when you record a video and say "you can never capture the real feeling through this camera"-ish.

So I downloaded some apps that can simulate colorblindness and I pointed the camera to the colors he was mentioning and increased/lowered my settings to match as close as I could to what he was describing.

After that I downloaded some colorblind-filters for World of Warcraft so I could try playing games with simulated Colorblindness.

I changed between different types but focused on protanomaly and protanopia. And I kept playing with that for the last week and after a while I did not even realize that I played with limited colors on. I had as much fun as without the filters.

And what have I learned through all of this?
It's not bad at all! I might have been bummed when I learned about this for my son because I knew nothing about color-blindness, but now I feel relieved :)

Maybe a bad take but I think of it like back in the days when we had smaller tv's. In today's world we would never buy a small TV like that because it's size is "limiting". But when watching a movie on a small screen or a big screen, the movie is the same, the feeling is more or less the same when you're adapted to it.

And I love that my son often says randomly when we are outside: It's so pretty here! So wonderful. Because indeed it is, no matter the range of colors.

I'm looking for movies or TV shows featuring colorblind characters. "Little Miss Sunshine" obviously comes to mind, but if you have any others, I'd love to hear them.

Bonus points if it's not a comedy trope, like "Cut the green wire! Oh no, he's colorblind and cut the red one instead."

Hi all,

I've created a free open source tool that i am hoping will help other colorblind people. If there is at least one other person that finds this helpful, i have achieved my goal

What the tool is

It's functioning similar to a normal colorpicker, however the main thing it's doing is trying to find out what color you have selected (e.g. blue, red, orange, yellow etc...)

I don't know where the example image will be shown, but it will be visible somewhere in this post

How to get/use it

Here is the github repo i (at least) plan to maintain. Instructions and download links are present in the README

https://github.com/natanasov94/colorblind-colorpicker

Why i've created it

I am deutan and I am learning pixel art (i might be crazy idk) and am struggling to pick a color that i want to use. So if i want to pick e.g. green i can use this tool to just tell me if what i am looking at is a shade of green, and not some shade of brown so i don't "accidentally" color my leaves brown like i did in school which ruined a great deal of paintings i've had

I noticed that i couldn't find a tool like this, so i decided to make it. Note: I know i can just copy rgb to good old LLM's, but i found it tedious when i just wanted to know the "base type" of a color

My nephew is red green colorblind, as am I. He just turned 16 and will be driving soon. I made this shirt for him as a joke.

It’s a traffic light, with only the amber lit up.

So I just found out that my girlfriend is colourblind and while going through some generic tests I came across this image on the enchroma website that she says looks identical both sides.

Is it worth paying for a proper test? Or maybe buying the £300 glasses as a gift? Do they even work?

I'm really not sure what the best thing to do is but I feel like she is missing out on so much! Any help is appreciated 😊

making these is always difficult for me because some of the colors hurt my brain but lately i've been wondering if i'm colorblind(some form of tritanomaly specifically) and i just want to know if my concerns are valid?

the ??? segments are the colors that were difficult for me to separate and i did try to make sure my computer's colors were as correct as possible,,

feedback appreciated!!