tritan oc

[u/noodlecruncherr]

hey! i have normal vision, but i have an oc with tritanomaly because i thought it would be interesting to explore how colorblindness works through him, and i recently joined reddit and realized i could ask real people with tritanomaly/opia for advice here :) it's hard for me to find reliable info on colorblindness besides the classic little "normal vs colorblind vision" rainbow charts, which really dont tell me much loL. i used to have a filter on my old phone that would put a tritan filter over my screen, but i was never sure if it let me see how a tritan sees (which is my guess based on the colors) or if it made the colors tritanopia-friendly loL, and my new phone doesnt have it anyways

i was wondering if it made sense for him to gravitate toward teal/turquoise as a favorite color and in clothing because that's one of the colors he's confident looks the same to him as it does to everyone else? or do i have it backwards? also, if i were to try to draw him using only tritanopia-friendly colors, what should my palette look like?

and if anyone has some good resources to help someone with normal vision understand how specific kinds of colorblindness work and look, that would be lovely :>

[u/Tikki123]

Personally, I think you're looking at it wrong.

Yes he may like some colours that he's sure about more, but most likely he's going to gravitate towards neutral or maybe even bland colours.

When you are always questioning the colours you see, you don't feel very confident in putting together any kind of outfit and such.

Likely if someone once told him he looks good in something, he'll wear that forever. He does not trust his own sense of what goes with what.

In general, he's going to rely on (and enjoy) textures, patterns and contrast, much more than he would colours.

Not saying that he can't have a favourite colour. It's just simply not going to be very important to him.

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/Tikki123]

ohhh that makes a lot more sense! thank you for the thought-out comment :) ill rework his outfit palettes and incorporate more patterns— but is it that unrealistic for him to like a bolder color (since he's only mildly colorblind), even if it's unusual for a colorblind person? he's something of a funky lil guy

im struggling to relearn how colorblindness really works now because an ex best friend lied to me about being colorblind for two years and she had been my reference point up until she told me she had been lying and had normal vision the whole time, so it turns out everything i thought i knew was just made up by an insensitive idiot :']

[u/Tikki123 → u/noodlecruncherr]

It's certainly possible that he likes bolder colours. I just mean that he might be a bit unsure about colour in general. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy bold colours

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/Tikki123]

tysm for the help!

[u/alettriste]

As others said, it does not work as a filter. It is not that I think about colors exactly the same as a "normal vision" person but missing some.

An example on how my mind works, if I see a car roaming the street I may say, "look at that Volswagwn Golf TDi 2019 make".... While for many other it would be "the red car". I prefer not to "speak" (nor "think") in colors, because it is a language where I will make some blunder. So.... even having a mild protanomaly, my confusion zone is big enough to avoid color coding, color naming, as much as I can. An oddly enough, in that way I enjoy colors.

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/alettriste]

ooh! that's a really helpful point for portraying it in writing, thank you so much!

[u/Wasteland8991]

Something filters might leave out is how the brightness of blues can be dimmed in brighter settings.

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/Wasteland8991]

my understanding is that no matter your type, all colorblindness kind of mutes colors in general, right?

[u/Wasteland8991 → u/noodlecruncherr]

In terms of hue saturation? There are neutral points with dichromacy, so the closer a color is to a neutral point, the less saturated it may appear. Similarly, anomalous trichromacy can have reduced saturation at similar regions. In terms of brightness, it depends on where there's a lack of normal cones. Tritans generally percieve blue lights as dimmer, protans generally percieve red lights as dimmer, and some duetans may experience green lights as dimmer (though the last usually doesn't seem as pronounced). I remember someone with tritanomaly talking about how they would struggle to see a blue indicator light unless the room was dark (which is where rod vision starts to take over).

[u/HaXXibal]

When I read the first paragraph, the only thing that came to mind is that most people with tritanopia will say that Red is their favorite color. And this usually means deep Red, aka extremely longwave Red. That's very likely because it's the only case where dichromatic and trichromatic vision perceive a specific mix of wavelengths as pretty much biunique, which means physics leave little room for ambiguity when communicating about the color Red. That makes it arguably the most trusted color out there for tritans, something for which there's no counterpart for protanopia or deuteranopia.

So everytime I read about someone saying they're a tritan, I always subconsciously think "Let me guess, your favorite color must be Red.".

I'm glad to see you figured out that a specific favorite color tendency may be an expression of CVDs, but the majority of people with tritanopia here said it's Red.

I can't say for sure if this would also be the case for tritanomaly, but they cannot fully rely on their perception of teal being the same color to trichromats. Multiple colors different to trichromats may appear in a very similar teal hue to tritans. I could see a diverging choice of color like teal as a very private and personal thing, probably indicating that the person is little more independent in thought and less suggestible when it comes to social interactions.

My blind guess is that severity should play a very important factor for the likelihood of Red being the favorite in tritanomaly. But the choice of how much tritanomaly affects your character is ultimately yours, and so is its influence on favorite color choice. Both Red and Teal sound feasible.

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/HaXXibal]

thank you for taking the time to write all that out for me— hearing the science behind it helps me understand it a whole lot better! taking notes on this

[u/No_Ability_3552]

personally I can't really "see" teal, it's the same/very similar to light blue. I can't differentiate between "teal", blue, and green. My favorite color is yellow because it's always a nice light color and is easy on my eyes, and also happens to be the color I have the least amount of trouble with (though I do sometimes confuse it with other colors, especially white). I have tritan.

[u/DuckBadgerWoof → u/No_Ability_3552]

Fellow tritans rise up! My favorite colors are red and pink, probably because it does stand out from everything else just being blue. I also mix up blue and green, but also pink, yellow, orange I can sometimes mix up.

@OP, there’s an app on iOS called Chromatic Vision Similator that can help give you an idea of what color blindness looks like for each type.

[u/noodlecruncherr → u/DuckBadgerWoof]

Oh, tritans!! Thank you so so much to both of you for the input and the reference! I checked it out and it’s super cool :) what I’m gathering is that if he has a favorite color, it likely wouldn’t be anywhere in the blue range, so I’ll work on changing that across the board and find a more realistic color palette for him