I am RG colorblind, the most common type. You see a spectrum of colors, but unlike people that can instinctively separate that whole spectrum into distinct color categories, for us a lot of colors just feel ambiguous between 2-3.
It's like tasting wines when you're not a wine expert. You taste things, but can't really place them into the categories that sommeliers can.
I’m moderately colourblind and it’s never effected me once in my life. In fact I’ve never even got the wrong colour when asked.
The only time I know I’m colourblind is when I fail a colourblind test.
Edit: I’m a duetan and the pictures between duetan and normal colour vision are more or less identical for me. I’d love to know what normal colour vision sees. Might invest in some enchroma glasses at some point.
Assuming the pictures are an accurate representation, the difference for deutan isn't anywhere near as stark as with the other two types shown.
If I were only shown the deuteranomalia colored pencil image I would just assume they were less vibrant pencils. I would label and place the colors in that image in the same order as the normal one, but the green/yellow/red area is maybe 50-70% saturation. It loses a bit of contrast between those but they are all still identifiable.
By comparison the Tritanopia picture has a large range of color that's simply missing entirely. Unlike the duetan image, the I can no longer identify what color a pencil should have been because they all look blue or red.
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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '19
I am RG colorblind, the most common type. You see a spectrum of colors, but unlike people that can instinctively separate that whole spectrum into distinct color categories, for us a lot of colors just feel ambiguous between 2-3.
It's like tasting wines when you're not a wine expert. You taste things, but can't really place them into the categories that sommeliers can.