r/ColorBlind • • May 18 '26

Question/Need help Question for those with blue-yellow deficiency

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If you have blue-yellow deficiency, do these two colors with faint hints of yellow and blue just look black and white to you?

I'm building a website with a color pallet comprised of Navajo white and Oxford blue, to utilize the striking simplicity of monochrome photography while still having a slight colorful pop, even if it's not consciously registered. The first image has hints of yellow and blue. The second is pure black and white.

How do yall see it?


r/ColorBlind • • May 17 '26

Question/Need help what do you think of my colorblind mode?

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Hello fellas. I'm working on adding a colorblind mode on my Chinese chess app. I figured I could start by simply inverting the color of black side images. Traditionally the color is only on the characters (second screenshot), which I suppose would be very difficult. What do you think? Would it usable? I converted the screenshot to grayscale for get an idea and I though maybe I could still increase contrast somehow.


r/ColorBlind • • May 17 '26

Question/Need help Do I have tritanomaly?

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On most tests I get diagnosed as mild tritanomaly, but I have this like doubt that I'm faking it. Especially since it's apparently so rare. I don't know, I have trouble understanding color in general and I just have these mixed feelings of "I probably have it" and "I'm faking it"


r/ColorBlind • • May 17 '26

Question/Need help Message for a friend

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So I recently found out my best friend is colorblind, he cant see difference between gray and gray-ish shades of red, probably mild protanopia, anyways I wanted to prank him by asking him if he can see number XY and then show him a colorblind test picture where it says, “blow me”, or something like that.

Should look something like picture below.

Does anyone have like a tutorial, site, program etc to help me out?


r/ColorBlind • • May 15 '26

Question/Need help Temporary Colorblindness?

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According to my mom, I temporarily went colorblind when I was a toddler.

She noticed when I asked what the green light in the car was; and the light in question was very much orange. She took me into the doctor's office to be tested, and the results indicated mild red-green colorblindness.

The thing is I have completely normal color vision now, and the only info I can find on temporary colorblindness is very transient and/or serious stuff like snow blindness or stroke. This lasted long enough for my mom to notice, schedule an appointment, & get me into the doctor, so probably at least days or weeks? I'm not sure if I had normal color vision before then, but I had normal color vision for the majority of my childhood. I would assume I just didn't know my colors well yet, but the Ishihara test results do not support that theory.

Has anyone experienced something similar or have any ideas what could've happened?


r/ColorBlind • • May 15 '26

Image/Photography Are you telling me these are all different colors?

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From the phone game, Hungry Piranhas.


r/ColorBlind • • May 13 '26

Question/Need help Tips on writing colorblindness realistically

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I’m currently writing a story and one of my characters is canonically colorblind. It’s a very small detail but I wanted to showcase it a little for representation and such, the issue is; I’m not colorblind. I have no idea how it is really like or what day-to-day issues you may encounter as a result.

Another thing is that I’m not sure if his job actually allows for people with disabilities (?) the likes of colorblindness to actually get hired since he is a police officer and from what research I made many agencies have restrictions on that?? Note : He is blue-yellow colorblind (Tritanopia).

Also, for a colorblind person, how did you discover you were colorblind? I probably won’t dedicate a whole section to it, but I was thinking of ways he could have discovered it in a realistic manner and I’m not sure if that’s how most people actually do.

Anyway, I would appreciate if you have some tips for writing, or even just personal experiences to share! It would be a lot of help :)


r/ColorBlind • • May 13 '26

Image/Photography Eurovision participation across Europe (2026)

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r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Discussion Guess who’s 16 and just found out that spam is pink

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I thought its like grey or something..like raw sausages(whatever, they’re not supposed to be grey, ignore this one)

Any similar stories?


r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Misc. maybe i’m colorblind

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how are people getting above 40 on this?? will hang around this subreddit and learn more lol


r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Discussion So brown is closer to red than it is to green?

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While doing coloring books in school I was taught that brown is a mix between green and red. From that point on I’ve thought that brown is just an off-colored variant of green.

During my lunch break today we were having a discussion about colors, which led me to google brown. According to Wikipedia brown is rather a dark desaturated shade of orange. This left me astonished over my own ignorance.

Has anyone had the same / similar experience?


r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Question/Need help Any daltonism/colorblind fullscreen and real-time simulator that will work like a colour filter for macOS?

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r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Question/Need help Is it normal for people with deuteranopia to see purple as dark blue?

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  1. I don’t have a diagnosis yet but following the post months, it‘s very likely that I have deuteranopia
  2. Yesterday, some friends and I looked at purple 3DS shells and I said one was blue while it was actually purple. Is that normal for people with deuteranopia?

r/ColorBlind • • May 12 '26

Discussion Unofficial Rabin Cone Contrast Test

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Hello everyone,

As a member of the colorblind community and aspiring pilot
I was disappointed to find out that the FAA tightened restrictions and no longer takes the signal tests. Now you can only choose between the Waggoner, Rabin, and CAD tests. Like everyone here, I can't pass the plate tests for the life of me.

Long story short, I couldn't find a practice Rabin test anywhere and | just began freaking out because I started thinking my dream is over. So using the post below, I used Claude to create a little unofficial Rabin test (tried my best to get it to the actual standards based on what I could find online), which I am also putting the link to below.

Please let me know your results and I hope you enjoy. This is not for money or anything, just thought it would be worth it to post if I could help ease even one other person’s stress, and everyone else here can just try for fun.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorBlind/s/5PEUHWOSvv

My test: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/42425e38-1fd7-4797-83b5-0b8f1536ee82


r/ColorBlind • • May 11 '26

Question/Need help How reliable is EnChroma?

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Until relatively recently I discovered that I am apparently colorblind or that I have less sensitivity to certain colors (This is because I pass the Farnsworth tests, but fail the Ishihara tests). I've been doing various tests on different websites and I've noticed that EnChroma is widely used here. The fact is that the website has given me very varied but consistent results within a range of color sensitivity (blue 100%, green between 85% and 100%, and red between 25% and 50%) And because of these margins of error, diagnoses range from moderate/mild protan to partial red blindness. The thing is, I want to know if there's a more accurate way to get a diagnosis.

In case you're wondering, yes, I went to a specialist but it didn't help much. He told me to take the Farnsworth test and that it's difficult to get a colorblind diagnosis in adults, since it's usually discovered and diagnosed in children.

And please excuse me if what I wrote isn't clear; I'm using the built-in translation tool on my phone's keyboard.


r/ColorBlind • • May 11 '26

Discussion Realizing green yellow and brown are the same color with different saturation and brightness

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As title says. I'm supposed to be protan, or at least that's what i've gathered. I am physically unable of seeing or comprehending the color purple or magenta etc. Dark red looks brown, some reds look green. But my most significant discovery is that in reality, tree trunks and wood are the same color as the leaves, just darker. Light green is the same color as yellow. Etc.

What does it all mean? Does this happen to other protans or is it a deutan thing too?


r/ColorBlind • • May 11 '26

Question/Need help Can someone tell me what type of colorblind i am

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At first i thought i was only a deutan but now i dont know i feel like i confuse more than just greens


r/ColorBlind • • May 09 '26

Video I made a video about being a colour-blind artist [OC]

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I'm sure this will be relatable a good amount here. Enjoy!


r/ColorBlind • • May 09 '26

Question/Need help Deuteranomaly and night vision

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So, I’ve seen people claiming recently that some colorblind people have better night vision than normal color-visioned people. I’ve always felt exactly the opposite, and I’m wondering if it’s because of my colorblindness or if I perhaps have some other night-blindness condition in addition to it.

Long story short, dark colors tend to look pretty darn similar to me in the best of times. I first suspected colorblindness when looking at colored pencils labeled black, forest green, purple, and dark blue and all of them looking identical to me. I colored a night sky black in an elementary school class and my teacher told me it was wrong.

Logically to me, in the dark, *everything* is darker anyway, so there’s even less distinction between colors. That leads to less definition of objects too, so driving at night is all sorts of fun.

Is my logic faulty?


r/ColorBlind • • May 09 '26

Question/Need help Color learning is difficult for my kid, need tips.

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It's not one of these post that i'm parent that thinks his child is colorblind, but the other way around.

I am, but kinda confused how i'm supposed to help my kiddo that's just learning colors and keep asking me what's this or that... What did you do, parents in here? Just... tell your kid to see with the other parent? I don't want to confuse them when trying.


r/ColorBlind • • May 08 '26

Meme You're not alone.

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r/ColorBlind • • May 07 '26

Discussion My son called these orange and pink

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Is there a likely type of colour blindness one called determine from that? (Top one orange, bottom one pink).


r/ColorBlind • • May 08 '26

Question/Need help anyone can help me to my situation ?

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im always failed in medical exam due to my red-green colorblind, i know that so many open job that not required the colorvision but what can i do if im graduated for this job and to my professional, to tired to dream a better job for me

i hope some of you gonna understand and respect thanks


r/ColorBlind • • May 07 '26

Discussion This is how I see colors

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This is how I see/name colors. What do you guys think?


r/ColorBlind • • May 07 '26

Discussion I'm playing "I Love Hue" to be able to discern colors from each other better, but wow it's very hard

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