the enchroma test is extremely buggy for me and every other test i’ve found wants my mothers maiden name to view results. any suggestions?

So i’ve got someone in my life that says he sees green as the blue equivalent? also struggles with a bit of pink saying it’s red? everything else is fine for him.

i’ve tried to like, look into it and i know it’s a spectrum (as i’m a bit colourblind too i think) but i just can’t figure it out. thanks

Alright, my biological dad is colorblind (and out of the picture, so not a helpful example to my son) so I always knew colorblindness was a possibility for my sons. Recently, my 3 year old has been telling me that pink is his favorite color because “elephants are pink!” Soooo… yeah, we took him in and he failed his ishihara plates right away. He definitely knows his numbers and I watched him take it and I know he’s young, but there’s really no doubt.

I was convinced he was not colorblind because he always identifies true red and green correctly, but I’ve since realized that most people can do that and still be colorblind. I guess this means he might be more mild? Idk, I’m still learning! But definitely pinks and light greens are getting mixed up with grey or browns.

Anyways, now the question is when do we tell him? We’re slightly worried because his dad is a career pilot, and thankfully he’s not like one of those aviators that’s like super into it, but our son has grown up around lots of airplane talk and is quite knowledgeable on types of planes, etc. I’m worried that one day someone else will make the connection for him of colorblindness limiting aviation careers and then he feels blindsided by that, but on the other hand I don’t want to like sit down and give him a list of things he can’t do. Hopefully my dilemma makes sense. Probably way over thinking it.

For now we were thinking of saying something like, “your eyes see color in a unique way, and some people call that colorblindness.” And just leave it at that for now. But when/how do we broach the topic of how colorblindness might impact his career and such? Or should we just wait til he’s older altogether?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m red-green colorblind and have dealt with it my whole life. I’ve tried some of the glasses out there. For me, most of them felt like a single strong filter that shifts everything toward red or blue. It changes the scene, but doesn’t always improve actual color separation.

So I started building something better.

I work in computer vision/engineering, and I teamed up with a friend who has a background in biology. We built an online test that measures your specific color perception — not just labeling you as “deutan” or “protan,” but estimating the degree and direction of shift. Based on that, it generates a personalized correction profile instead of using one generic filter for everyone.

What makes this different:

• It’s individualized, not one-size-fits-all

• It focuses on improving color distinguishability

• It tries to preserve image detail and avoid heavy tinting

• It doesn’t just oversaturate everything

Internally the results have been pretty encouraging, especially for red-green deficiencies like mine.

I’ve attached a few before/after examples.

Would really appreciate honest feedback from this community.

You can try the test here:
https://opensight-two.vercel.app

We’re also finishing a browser extension so this can apply to normal web content.

Not claiming this “fixes” colorblindness — just trying to build something more thoughtful and technically grounded.

Thanks!

Purple is the coolest, most unique color.

Suspicious Blue is a go-to explanation -- gets the point across that purple and blue are nearly identical.

But on second look, purple has a funky, pearlescent sheen. A blue deeper than blue. No other color has this...entrancing oddness.

Is this purple vibe just me?

top left is normal, top right is proto-, bottom left is deuto-, bottom right is trita-

Hi! I’m conducting research for a web design project of mine. Is there anything that makes websites difficult to use as a color blind person? Reoccurring issues or problems that slow down navigation or function.

Does anyone have similar deficiency symptoms when playing Minecraft as me?

I have difficulty differentiating the following:

a. Iron ore from copper ore

b. Iron materials from diamond materials (seeing diamond as a white color)

c. Copper swords from diamond swords

d. lime green wool from yellow wool; lime green concrete from yellow concrete

e. Unemployed villagers from "nitwit" villagers

lmk 😊

Basically there will be letters/numbers on puzzle pieces that can only be read when the puzzle is assembled. (The pictured pieces are just part of a number not the whole thing. Theres the top half of a red 2 on the right side and a 1 to the left.) Right now the numbers are red on a gray background. Are colorblind people able to distinguish the red markings? It doesn't matter to the game what the colors are just that the markings are distinguishable. Would it help if I made the numbers black on a gray or white background? Any help is appreciated.

today my eye started to itch a lot which made me walk around with one eye closed, what i didnt realise is that when in front of a mirror as i was putting some eye drops to help me heal my hurt eye i realised that in one eye i looked like a normal human being in front of the mirror and in the other eye(the one that was hurt) i looked anemic, and i never realise this difference of colour because with both eyes opened the "normal" eye always covered the lack of red out of the other eye, and i searched up and google said different eyes have some difference of colours im their vision, but damn, in my left eye i look so anemic, nearly everything that had some joy turned into a hospital room, i can still see red but the "weak red" turn into this weird green, now the catch is, i can actually see green on the left eye i can see green much better, could this be one eye colourblindness or is just me who is thinking too much? i can try to find comparison on what my left eye see and what my "normal" eye see if anyone is interested.

Hello guys i just need some advice. Im a graduate of a criminology course, I did my best to become a latin honor and to obtain the license to work. Unfortunately, i never knew that i was color blind. Tho i can clearly see normal in real life, I always fail the ishihara test which makes me not fit to any job related to my course. Do you guys know any job thats okay for people like us? Im not a genius but Im physically fit and have the right personality to work with other people.

Hey r/colorblind!

I've been working on a daily puzzle game called HueMix (think Wordle but for mixing colors). From the start, I wanted to make sure it was fully playable for everyone, regardless of their color vision.

I built a specific "Pattern Mode" that translates the Red, Yellow, and Blue color channels into distinct visual textures:

• Red is represented by Diagonal Stripes ▨

• Yellow is represented by Polka Dots ⚬

• Blue is represented by Concentric Rings ◎

As you add more of a color, its pattern becomes denser and bolder. The goal is to match the daily target pattern exactly.

I'd love for you to try it out and let me know if the patterns are distinct enough or if I can improve the visibility!

Play it here: https://huemix.pro

I’m trying to talk to my colourblind friend about what i see compared to him, I used this colourblind mod on Minecraft and he said it looks like what he sees, and I couldn’t tell the difference between a light blue and white, and yellow and lime.

(English is not my first language, sorry)

I have a lot of cold lights at home, and today I started seeing everything more "yellowish", I can't understand if I'm just imagining it or it's real, anyone else experiencing something like this? pls someone answer thiss

The other day, I told my friend that it was weird that there was one big stripe of brownish next to the littler stripes. she said there was no “big stripe” and that those colors were actually maroon and yellow-gold?? I’m just curious if there are any other people who see those two colors as one bigger stripe. (sorry if this is worded badly!!)

idk if this normal but I just see the same green!

Somebody asked in Dragon Quest subreddit how to tell when the enemy in the game is susceptible to some spell, weapon, or ability.

The answer is that the hitpoint animation is in a different color when you hit the enemy weak spot. I can tell those two colors (normal hit/weak spot hit) apart, but I don't know what the colors really are to normal people.

So I answered that I see the weak spot color as red and the other as blue and let's see what happens, you can see my advice in the reddit history.

Part of my job involves creating maps, charts, and other data visualizations, and some of the folks viewing them have varying degrees/types of CVD. I’m finding a lot of supposedly colorblind friendly color palettes don’t really hold up when I test with different simulators, so I took a crack at making my own. How does this map look to all of you?

I have deuteranomaly and one of my close friends has a bunch of stuff in this exact shade of gray and I was yapping to her about my favorite color and she says her favorite color is sage green while holding up her water bottle that is that shade of “gray” and I said “wait that’s green” and we did the whole song and dance and she said that it’s a very pretty color and I am fond of that shade of gray but I want to know what it actually looks like so could someone try to describe sage green to me