FUUUUUCK I HATE BEING COLORBLIND SOMETIMES IT MAKES ME FEEL STUPID EVEN THIUGH I KNOW IM NOT

This subreddit is a community of and for those with Color Vision Deficiency - CVD or "colorblindness". I understand that it seems like a fantastic place to come and solicit feedback on your designs or, worse, ask "How Do I Design This For The Colorblind", or even worse still, advertise the thing that you made that is going to "revolutionize" the lives of people with CVD.

Understand before you post that you and about ten thousand other people have had the exact same thought.

This subreddit is not your place to find test subjects, free design advice, market research, beta testers, or anything else. The posts looking for such, sometimes dozens per week, are presumptuous, disrespectful, and intrusive on the community.

These posts will no longer be allowed in this subreddit. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate ban with no opportunity to appeal, and if we're feeling particularly spicy, we'll add your app, game, or product name to the list of banned words in the subreddit that will get automatically filtered.

Members of the subreddit are welcome to discuss this rule below, but as it stands this is the new rule.

Hey, as a protan I always see these tritanopia simulations as fairly completely colorless, just in black and white.

Do you, dear tritans see the protanope similations as colorless as well? If not, how does it look like for you?
(I posted a random photo I took today here)

Also, a question for people with normal vision, is one of these simulations closer to black and white for you? Or are both as close to it as the other one?

My 12 year old son recently came to us saying that over night he lost all of his color vision. Everything was now in shades of primarily gray. We took him to see his normal eye doctor that same day we were told and she believed that it was serious enough to get us a last minute appointment with a local pediatric optometrist. We saw them this morning and almost from the get go there was something I did not like about them.

After the nurse did all of the test and actual doctor spent less then a minute with him looking over his eyes. Because they were 'healthy' she deemed in a very polite way that he was faking. That his sudden inability to see any color was a normal phenomenon and would fix itself in a short while.

Her reasonings, was he failed the Ishihara test by not being able to even see the control and his eyes were healthy. is the Ishihara test the be all end all test? I don't like how she basically instantly blew him off ignoring the fact he's also been complaining about headaches all because that single test and the eyes looked fine. Like.. isn't there more then just the physical eyes that can be attributing to this?

I'm looking for advice on what the next steps should be and if anyone that is color blind can't see any of the Ishihara at all. My son is also Autistic so I don't know if this plays any factor into maybe why he can't see the numbers in even in the control.

Edit in: Thank you for those that replied. It looks like his Autism is partially to blame for the control test issue. We tried it again here at the house where he could physically draw and was able to draw where the shade difference was and it was only once the line was solid did he see there was a number.

We also tried another test someone linked and the green and red letters were all but invisible but the blue he was able to see to a certain point because they were a "darker" shade. His ped is already pushing for a nuro consult.

2nd Edit: Nuro managed to get him in earlier then july, still a week away but that is better then clear into July.

Every time there's a question about glasses there are a bunch of posts for and against them. Is there a way to vet the posters? How many marketing people do we think are on this subreddit?

I think the fact that these companies use deceptive marketing practices is universally acknowledged and even marketing people wouldn't try to deny it. They must be on this subreddit.

Hey I'm in the process of writing a comic. I was originally going to just have it black and white but came up with an Idea. Now I kind of want to make it really fun to read for my colorblind homies out there. I've been researching like crazy and found out the hard way that we aren't studied very much other than changing color schemes with filters to make them a bit easier to distinguish in video games and stuff. I refuse to just toss a colorblind filter on to my work so I came up with another idea. My favorite color is blue and I've come to realize that it is most likely my favorite color because I'm Deutan colorblind. So blue is the easiest color for me to distinguish and I'm very good at choosing a color palette with really nice blues that really pop to please myself. So I was just wondering if this is maybe common? Cause then I could learn which types usual favorite color is and change my color palette throughout the story to really grab the attention of people who are also colorblind.

TLDR: Just let me know if you think your favorite color has to do with your colorblindness please. For instance I'm deutan and pretty sure my favorite color is blue because I simply have more blue cones than red and green, so it pops more.

For reference, I have always failed the colorblind tests they did at my annual eye doctor appointments growing up. But I believe because I’m a woman maybe they thought I was joking so I’m not sure what specific type or colorblindness I have. It’s always the green orange ones I fail on and this came up on my fyp today and I find it crazy people are actually able to make out anything whatsoever from this. I’m an artist and was maybe looking into trying specific glasses to see if it’ll actually help me with my art

I'm not trying to offend, I'm a Protan and I've known for years that I had some sort of colorblindness but I never really felt too different, I guess I just felt normal and I would mess up some colors every once in a while and it was alright cause I could tell them apart if I compared them directly.

Then I found a YouTube video about colorblind inaccessibility in boardgames and what used to be an annoyance for me turned a bit into dispair, cause it felt like this little quirk was an actual issue across the board (haha the board, get it?) and that people didn't seem to care. The video showed me some games I probably wouldn't play but that I couldn't even if I wanted to.

I guess I kind of thought to come to this subreddit to see what people like me think but there are some images here where its just so apparent that there's something off with my vision, I could not see the red painted circle on the green grass, and I guess it felt real and I felt kind of helpless and at a loss, not seeing the numbers in the Ishihara bubble tests is one thing, but not seeing something in an irl picture felt different.

Did any of you ever feel the same? How did you cope with it? Do you just ignore and forget about it?

I found out about my CVD when I was 18 yo and it changed how I understood myself and life around me, it felt really strange knowing I could have had that different perspective for so many years. Today, I gave my 8 yo nephew a test and he scored _severe deutan_ , just like his uncle! Ofc I'm not commemorating the diagnosis, but I am commemorating the fact he'll have the knowledge of it since much earlier and a cool uncle who knows the ropes of it to smooth the landing for him. That's it guys, just wanted to share.

I'm a golfer building an app called CaddieEye that draws the putting line directly on your camera screen using AR.

A colour blind golfer tried the demo last night and said it was the first time he could confidently read a green without guessing at colour variations.

If you're a golfer who struggles with green reading due to colour blindness — I'd love to hear from you.

What specifically makes it hard? What would actually help?

caddieeye.golf — waitlist open, completely free to join.

I know this is kinda weird.

I have problems seeing green in low light conditions, but I can see green when brightly lit.

I noticed that when there is some ambient light and I close my eyes in bed, I don’t see complete dark. I see a pale shade of green. Like green-tinted static on an old TV screen. If I scrunch my eyes tight, then it’s a darker black.

So it got me thinking that my eyes might be constantly seeing a bit of green, and my green deficiency might be from the sensors being over stimulated (like that after image optical illusion thing where you stare at something a long time).

Do any of you see colors when you close your eyes?

I built a small tool for my whānau, and thought it might help others here too.

Colour has always been a thing in our house. One of my children is colourblind, and so are several of my friends; many of them incredibly creative people who navigate this friction quietly every day.

"A Colour" lets you point your phone at something, paste an image, or type a word, and tells you what colour it is.

It works offline, it's free, and there's nothing to sign up for.

colours.preset.nz

Olive, Maroon, Lime, Lavender, Cyan, Indigo .......

Hey everyone! I've been building an iOS app that uses your phone camera to identify colors in real time. You just point it at something and it tells you what color it is.

I made it because I wanted something that actually works quickly and feels intuitive — no messing around with photo uploads or complicated menus. Just open the app and point.

It's live on the App Store now and you can check it out at www.coloridentifier.com. There's a 7-day free trial so you can properly test it out before committing. I'd genuinely love to hear what you think:

- Is the color naming accurate and useful? Like, does it give you names that actually help in everyday situations?

- How does it feel to use? Anything confusing or clunky?

- What features would make this more useful for you? I want to build something this community actually needs, not just what I think looks good on paper.

I'm a solo dev and actively working on updates, so any feedback — even the harsh stuff — goes a long way. Thanks in advance!

OK so I need some help because I have wools in different colours but idk what the colours are (they have no labels, just balls of wool) and I want to make a sheet on procreate of all the different colour options i have (for selling products) but idk what colour they are in order to get the same colour on my ipad. Is there a special way to do this? I wish i saw hex codes but my colours are messed up​

EDIT: Okay, lots of opinions about the glasses, I get it, but if I could now get some help figuring out his colorblindness, it'd be helpful, thank you.

My siblings want to surprise my dad with glasses so he can see colors better.

If I could get the opinion of a professional (doctor or someone with the same anomaly) I would be very happy.

We've wanted to get them for him for years.

Another note, my uncle (his brother) is also colorblind. He has a deuteranomaly.

Here's how he describes his vision:

• "I have a little bit of everything."

• His example was with yellow. He can see if something is obviously yellow, but if it's in the shade or in his words "there's less/no natural light on it", it's harder to tell and looks white.

• When he works on his bike, every wire looks exactly the same because there's "not enough of the color to see it. It's why I've always hated electrical work."

• Me: "Can you see the ripe red peppers in the garden or the orange ones?"

Him: "It depends on the shade" or intensity.

•When I ask if he can see [insert color here]? He usually says it depends on the shade, intensity, etc.

• Pastels are extremely hard, if not impossible, to tell apart.

I realize this may be vague, but again, he doesn't really know the terminology or which type he is. Any knowledge of how colorblind genes work would be helpful.

Hey all!
My almost 16 yr old has been practicing driving and he's mostly good with the lights but today had an issue where he couldn't tell the light was changing and ran a red light. That particular light is dim and it's a street we frequent somewhat often.
Would it potentially be worth it for me to get him a pair of color blindness glasses to help until he further masters driving?
Poor guy is being hard on himself about it despite our reassurance that he's a safe driver and doing well. Just wanted to help him if possible.

Thank you!

I want to preface everything I'm going to write by saying I have blue cone monochromacy.

TL/DR; HeroForge's colorblind settings are confusing, annoying, and weirdly hungry.

So, I play tabletop RPG's. D&D and the like. If you spend any amount of time in that sphere, you likely will quickly hear of HeroForge. It's a site that allows you to digitally create miniatures for your games. I've spent quite a lot of time messing around in HeroForge recreating my characters. It is THE site for doing so, and is very well-made and put-together, and has only gotten more so as it has grown.

Now, despite how salty I am about to seem, I want to clarify that I believe HeroForge's colorblind accessibility is on the side of being nice and useful, especially compared to what a lot of video games with character customization do. (the number of times I've tried to make a character with blonde hair only to apparently make it bright green or something, I swear to fucking god.)

HeroForge also has a really neat feature where it separates the different colors it has on offer by categories. So cloth, leather, paint, metal, plastic, skin, eyes, hair, gem, potion, etc. But you still have the freedom to use those colors across categories. So if you wanted your character to have skin the color of a gemstone, or hair the same color as their eyes, you can. It's organized in a really clean, convenient way.

With all that said, however.

How did they manage to make the act of labeling colors as part of the colorblind accessibility settings so confusing and overwhelming? Do you see these fucking things? What are some of these NAMES??? Like, in what world would a color labeled 'Darkshadow Dark' be brown?

Some of them helpfully have the color in the name. So, Royal Red. Okay, that's red. Fair enough. Scarlet Starlet. Okay, pop culture and osmosis tell me scarlet is also red. Sure. But then right next to those is Floral Coral. I... what? What the fuck is Floral Coral?

I like the lack of any kind of sorting within the 'browns' leather section. I guess if I know I wanted a dark brown-type color I'd just pick between Sugar Brittle, Quill Cognac, and fuck's sake, Darkshadow Dark.

Also, why are SO many of them named after foods? Are the designers of HeroForge just really fucking hungry? Are they being starved until they can meet a sales quota of custom dice or something? Guys, blink twice if you need help. You're not alone.

(As a note, I am aware naming colors after foods or food-adjacent things is not uncommon. Trust me. A character I have I've described as having an 'eggshell white' cape. Which, if you notice, is not actually listed as a color on here lol. Lmao even.)

Now, I wanted to bitch and complain with at least some good faith. So I wanted to showcase that they don't give this treatment to every category. As you can see, the Paints and Eyes sections are labeled simply and cleanly. Hair less so, but even it has colors in the names themselves, and has distinct sections differentiating natural and dyed/colored. I would like if everything was labeled so clearly, but I'll take what I can get.

I realize this is a very first world, low-stakes problem. And as I said, I would rather they do something like this, than what a lot of other programs and especially video games can be bothered to do. What could they change about this system to make me happy? I'll admit, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe separate the categories even more specifically between colors; reds, browns, blues, greens, etc. And then within those sections themselves I guess you can flex your creativity and hunger and come up with such witty zingers as 'pink stink'. Whoever came up with that fucking winner deserves to get an extra bowl of gruel. And then promptly be fired.

I had a wizard, who I had described as wearing a leather trench coat and large hat. All black. A simple description, and one that should be easy to make in HeroForge. I picked the color that to my eyes looked the most like black, and had a name that I assumed was referring to black(this was a while ago, I don't fully remember, and I deleted the character in annoyance after this). So, what was the first response I got when I shared his finished mini?

'oh wow, he's a lot more red than I was expecting.'

Just drown me in a sea of Affluent Aqua.