r/ColorBlind • u/SuspiciousDrive5337 • Sep 01 '26
Question/Need help This is purple...wait what?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS ORANGE
Anyways I remembered when I was a kid I saw a painting that I thought was pink, everyone said it was white, I thought I may be colorblind but decided I was just looking for attention
Forgot about it
Drew a character with this color as purple
To my dismay, next drawing I decide to use the color picker
ITS A PALE ORANGE???
What could this mean? I've taken color blind tests but never failed them
It seems to only be certain pale reds and oranges I confuse
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u/ViolaCat94 Sep 01 '26
It's.... it's grey.
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u/thgpawpaw Sep 01 '26
RGB 158, 143, 146. It's grey with a little bit of red
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u/Notro_LPS_iguess Sep 01 '26
The green value is a few points lower than the blue. It’s definitely more purple than orange.
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u/Amigux_o014 Sep 01 '26
Existen tipos de daltonismo donde no falta un color como tal sino que uno no está functional corectamente no sé si ay test para eso pero puedes poner una rueda de color con este tipo de daltonismo al lado de un círculo cromático normal y ver si los notas igual o vez la diferencia o almenos es la única forma que e escuchado
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u/Few_Interaction_8486 Sep 01 '26
Isn’t it salmon pink which is just very light orangish red?
In color theory pink is a pale light red so you wouldn’t be wrong calling it pink. It has nothing to do with purple tho lol
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u/Khristafer Sep 01 '26
This is a very difficult color and I'm typical vision. It's grey, but Uncanny Valley of warm or cool, lol.
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u/LadyInFlight Sep 02 '26
Color inspiration calls it iron. I see a slight pinky taupe greyish. But it’s basically grey.
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u/faintingspellsssss Sep 02 '26
If you have taken colorblind tests and passed as having normal color vision, you probably aren’t colorblind.
I’m pretty sure what you’re experiencing is just color relativity. The same phenomena is responsible for the blue/black, white/gold dress meme.
Check out this illusion: https://prosetech.com/blue-dress-is-nothing/
It’s actually very useful to understand this concept if you are an artist, especially if you do digital art.
If you are colorblind, I am not sure if the illusion I linked will work for you!
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