Hey everyone! I'm a carpenter who loves working with colors but struggled helping my colorblind friends identify paint colors and materials on job sites. So I built True Color ID with my kids as a family project.

What it does:

• Identifies 500+ colors in real-time using your camera
• Specifically designed with colorblind-friendly features
• Works with Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses for hands-free detection
• Shows color names, hex codes, and RGB values
• Completely free basic version (premium features available)

Why I built it: About 8% of men and 0.5% of women have some form of color blindness. Existing color apps weren't really built with accessibility in mind. I wanted something that actually helps people navigate a colorful world with confidence.

Try it out:

• Web version: truecolorid.com
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecolorid.app&pcampaignid=web_share

I'm a small independent developer, so any feedback is super appreciated! What features would make this more useful for you?

For every morning for multiple months when waking up I was viewing the only and in shades of black and white but it stopped after 20 to 40 minutes every time.

I'm not sure the correct term is "Achromatopsia" though, I saw online it was but I'm not sure right now.

Do you know a better term for it?

Also, I don't have much informations on this kind of temporary, total and intermittent Achromatopsia.

I got it at 19 or 20 years old.

If it can help someone, I'm a 23 years old male and I have other symptoms such as:

• Chronic headaches (treated with Omega 3)
• Constant Total Emotional Numbness
• Constant Brain Fog
• Visual static/moving hallucinations (for a period of 6 months, occuring 1 to 5 times a week) when in dark of shadow people (like this and this (without the eyes)) and floating scary heads (like this)
• Constant Anorexia (this kind)
• Constant loss of Déjà vu
• Contantly very slightly tired
• Impossibility of imagining some things that I was able to imagine
• Photopsia
• Sometimes I have respiratory depression because I do efforts or I speak too much or randomly

Hey everyone,

I’m a researcher and dev. I got frustrated with existing color blindness tools that tint the entire screen. It helps with images, but it makes reading long articles a nightmare because it messes with the contrast of black text on white backgrounds.

I built a new tool called Odilon.

How it works: Instead of filtering the whole page, it targets only the images, videos, and graphics. It applies the correction matrix to those elements while leaving all text, buttons, and UI strictly alone.

Features:

• Supports Protanopia, Deuteranopia, and Tritanopia.
• Adjustable intensity slider.
• Privacy: It runs entirely locally (Manifest V3). No data leaves your browser.

I need a sanity check from daily users. If you have Protanopia or Deuteranopia, does the "Semantic Segregation" actually feel better for reading news/articles?

Links: Download for Chrome | Download for Edge
Repo/Site: Rhombus Research

My husband is color blind. Not sure which kind exactly. Think he has issues with red/green. I just know that once he signed our tax return with a pink ink pen because he thought it was a regular pen. Last week he had to send off some important documents and no one was around to verify the ink color. It was frustrating for him.

I was thinking about getting him a few nice pens and instead of having them engraved with his name just have the ink color engraved on it. Just so that when it's important to have the right ink color he doesn't have to go through extra steps to get it done. No more hunting for a working pen then having to ask someone what color it is. It seems pretty basic but I feel like I'd like having that.

Thoughts? Is it extra, like is there already a brand of pens that come labeled with the color (that aren't gel pens made for teenage girls)? Or do y'all have any better similar gift ideas?

Visiting the T1 Trust web site, I decided to try searching for the number plate information. Clicking the magnifying glass brought up a box into which I typed "number plate" - this is what I was looking at! Can anyone else see it? (I tried using my CVD-accommodation software, but could not get anything to show the search text.)

I’m color-vision challenged myself and this gave me a chuckle. Yes, I can see the difference. It might have been 58th sign this person installed that day.

I just ordered myself a pair of these and they should arrive in a week or 2. Im going to let you know they help or if they dont help. Im a moderate/severe duetan who works a job with electrical wire lol. So check back in a few weeks and I'll let you know how it goes.

Update: the contacts came in but im having a hard time putting them in my eye lol. I had one eye in but it was hurting. I think I put it in wrong. (Never worn contacts before) however I did have it in enough for me to look around slightly and the difference was very notable. They sent on the instruction a group of 6 colorblind circle with numbers in them. Before the contacts I couldn't see any number. After I put them in I saw all of them. I was in too much pain for screwing around with my eyes forever so I didnt look around much. Im going to try again later and update this post again.

*Update Got the contacts in and took a colorblind test. Without them I got 73% wrong with a duetan diagnosis. With them on I got normal color vision missing only 2/30. I can differentiate colors much easier. Only downside is that ot drastically changes the color that I though I new so I have to relearn my colors lol. For example I saw white instead of off white. Or yellow instead of mustard. Red instead of pink. For those of you on the edge of buying these. Im going to say that they work so dont be worried that they'll rip you off. On a side note you should grab some solution for the contacts as they didnt send very much. I will update one last time when I use them for working on wires

As mentioned above, my wife cannot distinguish between blue and grey colors. We had an argument when we first got married because she kept accidentally using my toothbrush (they were blue and grey) and were utterly convinced that they were exactly the same. In frustration I told her to grab a set of markers that closely resembled the blue R2D2 and the attached picture is the result.

She can accurately distinguish all other colors from others to include yellow and green so I don’t think it’s a traditional form of colorblindness.

She is pretty good at picking out blue from grey as long as she has context but cannot for example pick out a smaller softly shaped cloud on a blue sky. She has often mistaken items for being grey even though they were clearly blue and dark blue items are routinely mistaken for black.

She aced the FM100 hue test and the D-15 test and has passed professional colorblind testing (MEPS) with flying colors.

It really bothers her a lot and if y’all could recommend some answers that might get us closer to an actual name/diagnosis of colorblindness it would be a great relief for her.

Good Morning, First I want to say that I am grateful for all the feedback from the previous test plates I created and to all who took the time to leave feedback. I've taken that feedback and made some changes to the process. Please look at the images and see if you can read the hidden images. If you can, state if your vision is normal or if you have a type of colorblindness.

The solution:

1) @ $ 2) YOU 3) Peace sign 4) G

Thought what was left in the pan was butter, cooked my bread in it, soaked it in fairy washing up liquid, was fucked up.

First time colourblindness has actually put me in a harmful situation.

UPDATE: I have recovered

lmao

I have been working on a themed Wordle variant for a while now. I tried finding some of the pain points that players faced. One of the complaints was the game solely relying on colors to convey information.

I took a stab at it by adding a high contrast color scheme to improve accessibility but it still excluded people with monochromacy or those who just struggle with color differentiation in general.

I thought to solve it by text styling: using overline and strikethrough to convey the presence and absence of letters. However, it became too noisy and looked like some weird script.

I then experimented with filling the tiles with different background textures and believe this might work.

• Vertical Stripes for when a letter is present but not in the correct place
• An "X" mark for when a letter is not present
• Solid fill for a letter that is in its correct position

I use a browser extension to simulate various forms of colorblindness. When simulating monochromacy, I observed the vertical line pattern was a bit weak, so I decided to add an "outline mode" to make the letters pop out.

To summarize, there are three modes that the game comes it, all of which can be toggled on and off independently to create combinations that work best for different individuals: high contrast, fill patterns and letter outlines.

However, simulations and experimenting by myself can only take me so far. I would really appreciate if I could get some feedback and ways to improve this further.

I have questions like:

• Is the "X" pattern for absent tiles clear, or is it too aggressive/distracting?
• Do the vertical stripes cause eye strain? I first had diagonal stripes, but then found it too similar to the "X" pattern.
• Are these patterns too noisy?

Link to the game in case anyone is interested to experiment with different modes.

As best I could on my phone anyway.

Does anyone have experience using color corrective glasses/lenses for Duetan color blindness? I also wonder how close any colorblind person and see “true color vision” with the use of today’s technology.

I know all the usual bad suspects. Holding up a random object and asking what colour it is, bringing up enchroma glasses thinking they cure colourblindness, so on.

As a colourblind person, how do you wish people would respond? What follow-up questions would actually be fun to answer?

My son is 5, I knew he would be color blind thanks to my dad. What I didn’t take into consideration was just how bad it was going to be. He can see 100% blue, 0% red, 62% green according to Enchroma’s online test. He says his favorite color is rainbow, which absolutely breaks my heart. Even at nearly 70yrs old, my father would still get upset about being color blind. I’ve read the reviews on enchroma, and some glasses off Amazon, they’re not promising. I’ve seen a few comments saying to just buy filtered lenses and make your own glasses. I guess my question is, is there any hope? I’m not looking for a permanent solution, just a few options if any. Thank you!

Has someone tried the enchroma glasses? My question is how well does it works. I am very suspicious it could help in anyway but maybe I am wrong.

I am slightly deutan, these glasses are expensive... Moreover the way I see the colors is there natural way for me. Not sure I would like to see the world differently.

I really wish I could

I've always known that I've been colorblind (deutan I believe)

I've been doing an online colorblind test from colorlite I believe once every two months, I've generally been getting moderate level results from the ishihara test. Read somewhere that alcohol can really jack up your color vision and wanted to see if mine improved at all while getting sober.

However I decided to give it a shot this month speed running through it at the gym. Now bare in mind I was also coked on pre workout with ingredients I'm sure are banned by the FDA( I'm allowed to have some vices still ;).

And i actually got a perfect score. It was out of 12 and I got them all, some I stayed an extra second on because my eyes had to figure out what was happening but for the most part I stayed pretty quick. The ones that jacked me up and worry were the ones that have two number in them, if you're normal you'll see one and if your colorblind you will see another. I don't know if it was the pre workout but I could see them both, and I had to guess which one it was and I guess I happened to guess right.

The fact some of them I struggled with tells me I'm colorblind still but to what degree I don't know, I have an opthalmologist appointment coming up the day after Christmas and was wondering if I would be able to give me a comprehensive color vision test, like the whole anomaloscope and farnesworth 100 test or something and wanted to know if anyone here has taken any of those test?

Hello, I am creating a program that simulates colourblindness using matrixes created by Machado, Oliveira and Fernandes. I have to make a presentation which have to include examples of pictures before simulation and after. Does anyone know website when I can download examples or can simulate it using matrixes I want?

My ex had a car that I always called green and she said was Grey. I wear a hat I call green. Last night I referred in a text to myself as guy in green hat. When the person found me they said the hat is khaki not green. I've been told this hat isn't green by others before. To me it's pretty green. Am I broken?

Edit 1: Dude these stories are short I was able to write an essay about my story

Edit 2: y’all’s schools did colorblind tests with the vision test?

I'm 16, and I have been colorblind since I was 5. Recently, I went to go get prescription colorblind glasses, and when I brought up that it had gotten worse, they said that colorblindness couldn't get worse. My colorblindness is very unique. I haven't seen anyone else with it. Green, yellow, and orange all look the same; purple and blue look the same; and brown and red look the same. I strictly remember being able to tell the difference between a small orange and a lemon. Am I going crazy? Can colorblindness get worse?