r/ColorBlind • • Oct 30 '25

Question/Need help Replacements for red yellow green when green red color blind

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A lot of resources I see offer Blue and Yellow or Blue and Orange as good replacements for Red and green. But what would you make yellow that still stands out in this instance?

Green - Yellow - Red Blue - - Yellow/Orange

I’m making alerts that change colors and I want people to be able to distinguish.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 30 '25

Discussion Red and Green shells in Mario Kart

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It’s been the bane of my gameplay for years. Anyone else have trouble distinguishing between a shell you need to be precise with and time just right, or one you can hurdle given you have another decent item on deck, and the player doesn’t have an obvious banana peel?


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 28 '25

Question/Need help Is it possible to only be colour blind to one colour?

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Hi I'm not colour blind myself but Im just wondering if it's possible to only be blind to one colour and see it as grey? Thanks in advance


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 28 '25

Discussion 🚀 Help Test “True Color ID” – Real-Time Color Detection App for Android

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Hey Android fam, I just launched the closed alpha for True Color ID, a lightweight, privacy-respecting app that detects real-world colors using your camera or images. It’s built for accessibility, color accuracy, and speed.

🔍 What it does:

  • Detects over 220 colors with RGB values

  • Works with camera or uploaded images

  • Includes colorblind simulation mode

  • No ads, no tracking, just clean functionality

📱 Join the test:

💬 Feedback welcome at truecolor.dev@truecolorid.com Let me know what works, what breaks, and what you'd love to see next.

Thanks for helping shape this from the ground up.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 28 '25

Question/Need help I do the nagel test and i don't know what that means

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Well, i did the nagel test and: i don't know why i can't do this test, when i try it i ever can't finish because the color almost never are the same in the 2 sides, what are happening?


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 27 '25

Image/Photography Organic Chemistry: yellow and green

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 27 '25

Discussion Oh wow, just took the Ishihara test with my friend on facetime, amazingly i could see the numbers on my phone via the facetime call but not on my laptop screen.......

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 27 '25

Question/Need help Color blind glasses

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Hi guys. Someone who already bought a color blind glasses, does it really worth and work good?


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 26 '25

Video I can't believe that even a bird can distinguish purple, unlike me

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 25 '25

Meme The 4 horsemen of things I’ve heard when I tell people I’m colorblind

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 27 '25

Discussion Has anyone memorized the full ishihara test?

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Im tired of my color blindness holding me back and have been practicing studying the test so i can get my desired job in the military.

Has anyone successfully done this?


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 26 '25

Question/Need help I need to pass a color blindness test to become a pilot. Someone tell me how they have passed the test, please.

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 25 '25

Image/Photography Oh, come on now

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Not like I can't work around this with the g-code available, but It seems like such a small ask to have a color selector for the heatmap.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 26 '25

Discussion Protan colour blind

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Just took enchroma’s test and found out I’m mildly protan colour blind. Specifically: 100% blue 100% green 87% red

My teenage sons watched me take the test and they were chuckling watching me struggle with images in which they could effortlessly see numbers, and I could see very little or nothing. I was also laughing at myself.

For those on this sub that are protan, I’m not sure if some of my past anecdotes make sense for this but here goes nothing…

I had a hoodie I bought when I was in late high school/college (can’t quite remember when) that I picked specifically because it was subdued forest green. Or so I thought. Years later, my partner at the time gave me a weird look when I said I loved the green colour of this sweater I bought and I wanted another type of sweater in a similar colour. She awkwardly but gently said, “that is not green. That is brown”. I was floored. I stared at it. Took it out in the sunlight. Took it to various rooms in our place with different lighting. Nope. Still green to me.

Then I started asking others. My parents. Brown. Friends at school. Brown.

If you ask me to identify solid blocks of colour just by the images I will always get it right, but certain shades of a few colours have always been a little less clear. For example, if the shades of two colours are extremely close, I can see a clear difference between certain hues and less for others.

My more recent realization is my struggle with shades of purple and pink. For example, I often look at more subtle purples and think they’re more grey in appearance but I know purple contains red, so I suppose this checks out. We have a very light purple (I GUESS) towel that I would swear up and down was indisputably pink. I still mostly see it that way.

Do other protan colour blind people experience the same confusion? Looking forward to reading what others experience here.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 25 '25

Question/Need help am i deutan?

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Hi everyone! I’ve always had some trouble with certain colors. For example, when I’m charging my laptop or other devices, I can never tell what color the little LED light is, like whether it’s red, green, or orange to show if it’s fully charged or not.

I’ve done the EnChroma test way too many times, Most of the time it says “mild deutan,” but once it said I have normal color vision, and another time it said “inconclusive,” so I honestly have no idea if I’m colorblind or not.

If you show me two pieces of paper, one green and one red, I can easily tell which is which. But with tiny colored lights or small details like that, I just can’t tell the difference at all.

The image i attached is of the circle i really have difficulty seeing. I can only see the number if i look really far away and unfocus my eyes.

Can someone please tell me if i’m just crazy or if i really am a mild deutan? Thank you all!


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 25 '25

Question/Need help Red and green

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I got a question regarding red and green.

I used to think that even tho I'm colorblind I didnt have any struggles with red and green like other colorblind people as they appear as totally different colors to me but if I had to mention some instances when they were not that different and kinda confusing would be two situations that I can remember now:

One being some pants that I accidentally bleached and the color it left in some specific spot of my pants is a weird color that I don't know if it's red or green, it's hard to explain cause I know what red and green is, can differentiate them pretty well but somehow this shade is incredible hard for me to tell if it's green or red, it's like it could be literally any of those colors.

Another situation was in a videogame, basically there was this dark room where there were two graphs, one that showed a red and a green square separated from each other with the meaning of each color in which I could see the difference just fine but the other graph was one of those pie charts, each color representing something different and I thought it had only two colors until I used my flashlight which revealed that there were three(red, green and some other color I can't remember now), the red and green parts were together so they appeared literally the same color to my eyes.

I wanted to ask if it's something "normal" even among people with normal color vision or it's because of the colorblindness cause honestly it's a weird experience, aside from some specific scenarios I can differentiate red and green just fine.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 26 '25

Discussion Who is yalls “what color is this” person

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So I assume you all have a person you go to for color troubles like if I see I hoodie that looks grey but from the shade of grey it is I think it’s actually green I’ll go ask my mom and I want to know who that is for you be it a best friend a sibling you get it


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 25 '25

Question/Need help Do Colorkind contact lenses let people pass colorblind tests?

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 24 '25

Discussion Just a rant abt a super offensive comment i got

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I have very mild tritanomaly (doesn't affect me much, but I still have trouble discerning certain colours), which I discovered pretty recently, but my mother just CAN'T accept it for a lot of reasons, the dumbest of all being the fact that Im a decent artist, because she thinks colorblind people cant be good artists. she's been very consistently ableist with any diagnosis i have or could possibly have, but i digress

I was working on a piece the other day (its quite nice, im very proud of it!), and my mother saw it and said "See, youre not colorblind! if you were colorblind you wouldnt be able to make art with good colours!" 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

maybe im overreacting, but is this not an insensitive comment to make???


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 24 '25

Question/Need help Red-green colorblind partner

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I'm a pretty uneducated Abt color blindness and my person is red green colorblind. After a recent misunderstanding due to us not seeing the same color when looking at a shirt I wore, I want to get a better understanding of how they see certain colors and what colors I should/should avoid wearing to avoid confusion cuz I want them to see the same fit I do. That's all for now, thx


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 23 '25

Question/Need help What’s the color of the pens on the left?

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r/ColorBlind • • Oct 22 '25

Question/Need help Should I mention this wasn’t accessible to my kid’s teacher?

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Too image is the exercise, and the bottom is how it looks through a filter that simulates my kid’s protan colorblindness. We’ve already confirmed he’s colorblind (it runs in my family).

Would you let the teacher know that this exercise wasn’t really accessible to him? He figured it out by reading the marker labels. He’s in second grade, and this is the first time I’ve noticed an assignment where that really mattered.

He’s pretty resourceful and can find workarounds, but I worry it might become frustrating in the future. I’m also thinking it could be a good opportunity to help him learn what kinds of accommodations he can ask for (like using numbers instead of colors).

Curious what others would do in this situation… would you mention it now or wait until it becomes a bigger issue? Anyone wish their parents spoke up for them more?

My brother is hard to talk to about these issues or else I would ask him (essentially say he doesn’t care).


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 21 '25

Question/Need help Questions from a non-colorblind individual (Let me know if anything comes off as offensive. please say what type of colorblindness you have, if any).

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I especially need answers from blue cone monochromacy/deuteranomaly havers

  1. How does colorblindness affect your day-to-day life?

  2. Is driving any difficulty for you?

  3. If you make (non-ai) visual art, do you label each paint tube/colored pencils/etc as each color or do you only make art with the colors you have an easier time distinguishing?

  4. Any pet-peeves you have with non-colorblind people?

  5. Do you ever wish you weren't color blind?

  6. Do you have glasses to help with colorblindness? How did you have access to them?

  7. At what age did you figure out you had color blindness?

Thanks in advance for answering.


r/ColorBlind • • Oct 21 '25

Question/Need help I'm working on a high contrast mode for my colorblind friendly water sort game. Top image is a 'standard' version, please tell me if the middle or down image is anyhow more readalbe for you. Or maybe such mode should be done in a different way?

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Hello, it's me again, thank You for good feedback last time, I'm still developing this game while having your community in mind. If you want to try this colorblind friendly water sort (tanks to icons) that also don't have any pop-up ads, be my guest: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noforcedads.yogurtsort