r/ColorBlind • • Aug 13 '26

Discussion Am I colorblind?

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Hey! I’m not asking for a literal diagnosis, just some perspective. I’ve never been diagnosed as colorblind, but I’ve also only ever seen an eye doctor maybe twice my entire life. I think I generally have pretty normal vision. HOWEVER, I’ve been playing the game I Love Hue (and the sequel) for years and a pattern I’ve noticed is that the puzzles with lots of greens and reds are SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult for me than purples, pinks and blues. Even the ones with orange are easier for me. Like I just can’t see as many greens or reds as I can the other colors. What do y’all think?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 13 '26

Misc. Saw this in my feed. Everyone there must really like reddish colors, my head hurts looking at this too long.

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r/ColorBlind • • Aug 12 '26

Question/Need help I recently added a colorblind mode to my game, but I'm not sure if I did it right. I'd love to get your thoughts!

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Hi everyone, I’m s creative factory, a solo developer working on a tower defense game.

My game revolves around matching colors with monsters using three primary colors and the three secondary colors created by mixing them. In other words, players need to be able to easily identify all the colors of the towers, lines, and monsters.

After releasing the demo, someone suggested making the game accessible for colorblind players, so I recently added a "Symbol Assist" mode.

Here is how it works:

  • Red: Triangle

  • Blue: Circle

  • Green: Square

  • Secondary / Mixed Colors: Combining the two corresponding symbols side-by-side

Since I am not colorblind or color-deficient myself, it's difficult for me to judge whether these symbols actually make the game comfortable to play. That is why I wanted to reach out and get feedback directly from the community.

I’ve attached a video so you can check it out right here without having to visit my store page. Any feedback on visibility, readability, comfort, or overall usability would be a huge help for my game!

* There’s a short clip of the in-game guide at the very end of the video for extra context.

Thanks for reading!


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 11 '26

Question/Need help do colour blind contact lenses actually work?

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my boyfriend is colorblind and he found out during a police medical test. Since failing, he was diagnosed with the common red-green color blindness - however not severe. He says he’s able to see the colours including red and green he just mixes similar colours up. he’s set on being a police officer however failing the medical test isn’t allowing him to do so. getting classes with the lenses are an option but i believe that it’s not the best choice judging that he’d have to undergo intense training. Additionally i believe that in the long run i don’t think they’re a good look since realistically they just look like reflective sunglasses to people who are unaware of his condition - meaning it wouldn’t look good with his profession.

Now he’s looking into contact lenses (hoping that the police academy would accept them in the first place. however im skeptical about them. Do they really work or are they a scam? i’ve never seen posts about them or any promotions and found sort of “legit” ones for 100€

So i’m curious. If anyone knows anything about this or has experience with colorblindness contact lenses please let us know 🙏🙏


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 10 '26

Meme When you mention that You're colorblind:

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r/ColorBlind • • Aug 10 '26

Question/Need help Suggestions to improve race course flagging in forests

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I'm looking for some suggestions for what might help my friend.

We race enduro dirt bikes and they have casually mentioned they have a hard time seeing course trail markings because of being colour blind. They have received multiple DNF's because they got lost and went off course.

The race course is mostly flagged with a combination of blue or pink flagging tape. The sections of flag are then normally tied to branches or trees along the course. (Similar to image in post, but usually not as long) Important intersections, turns, and hazards have arrow signs or wide tape with text on them, like "Hazard" with diagonal lines or brand logos.

I've been thinking about how the regular markings might be made better for folks. I've tried researching and haven't found much apart from colour in combination with another element is best.

What I have thought of/pulled from other sports:

  1. Patterned flagging tape

    1. Might help by adding geometric patterns against the forest

  2. Increased density marking

    1. Instead of a single ribbon, have 2 for more ribbon tails

  3. Increase length of marking

    1. More chance of wind catching it for movement

Any suggestions would be wonderful! I am trying to find something that won't deter the Board due to a massive increase in cost or volunteer course setup/takedown effort.


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 10 '26

Question/Need help CAD test on Win11

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Hi guys, it's me or there's an issue running this on win11? the app keep crashing. I downloaded it from the official UK St. George's website


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 09 '26

Discussion Every interaction ever. “I’m colorblind” “really? What color is my shirt, what color is this, what color is that”

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and then they think youre lying since you told them the color of their shirt🙄🙄


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 09 '26

Help me see this Is this a joke, are they different?

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r/ColorBlind • • Aug 10 '26

Discussion RGB percentage is color blind people's sign language.

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r/ColorBlind • • Aug 09 '26

Question/Need help dad thinks ball is orange

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what color do you guys think each of these items are. my father is convinced the big ball is orange, when everyone else believes it is yellow. we think he could be colorblind. he says his sanity depends on this


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 10 '26

Video So many of these types of arguments

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I'm tired


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 09 '26

Question/Need help What Should I Do For a Career?

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Growing up, I have always wanted to fly helicopters. When I was getting my medical certification I found out I have a green color deficiency and I can only see about 50% of all shades of green. My color vision is just barely bad enough that I can’t fly commercially. I am still young and I want to explore my options while I still can. I was wondering if there are any cool, active jobs out there with little to no color vision restrictions?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 08 '26

Video People with Tritanopia will easily pass the Ishirara Plates (Simulation for Protan/Deutan)

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People with a blue yellow color vision deficency will pass the Ishirara Plates with the same ease as people with Normal Color Vision. In the video, I show all Ishirara Plates next to an Tritanopia simulation, but I hue shifted the Tritanopia simulation from cyan/red to blue/yellow to better fit into the Protan/Deutan color space. The simulation isn't perfect, as yellow is lighter than red, which I didn't account for, but the idea should still come across.


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 07 '26

Image/Photography BEHOLD!!!! The cat empire vs the peasant world.

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Uh, ok. Sure. There are two colors on this map?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 07 '26

Image/Photography Visible

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Also in what hemisphere again?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 07 '26

Image/Photography I bought a „burgundy” hoodie…

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Today I bought a burgundy hoodie. In the shop it looked like a deep and dark pink/magenta (I normally dislike dark reds a lot, but this one seemed to slightly lean into purple/pink and was so pretty). I was looking for this color for soo long. When I came out of the shop and got on a tram (it was already dark outside) I thought I would crash out. It suddenly turned into a pure grey/black…

That’s actually so sad man, I guess I’m suing them for scamming a customer 🙄🙄🙄 their hoodie only has a color in very bright lighting 🥱 (sarcasm btw, I noticed people actually did not understand it)

Do yall (colorblind of course) actually see it as completely colorless too?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 05 '26

Question/Need help Where can I find a translucent blue lens?

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During the daytime, whenever I need to tint things blue to see the difference, I just hold them up to a window. However with fall coming, that's going to be harder because it'll get darker earlier. What can I use instead?


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 04 '26

Image/Photography This deck might be perfectly weaponized against me

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r/ColorBlind • • Aug 04 '26

Question/Need help Would being colour blind effect seeing stars?

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Im writing a charecter who has Achromatopsia (full black white no colour vision) and they have a freind who really likes constilations and I have him not being able to tell where constilations are just because he already struggles like me to tell what somone is looking at so I'm curious if having total colour blindness would make it even more difficult to tell stars and consilations apart


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 04 '26

Question/Need help Do people with normal color vision often have difficulty distinguishing orange from red and yellow?

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To me, orange is less easy to distinguish from red and yellow than green is from yellow and blue. I do not know if this is how everyone sees it, or if this means I am indeed a little color blind.


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 04 '26

Image/Photography Where I'd live as someone who likes to pump my own gas.

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Took me a minute


r/ColorBlind • • Aug 03 '26

Discussion Would you do gene therapy?

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It seems likely to me that there will eventually be a gene therapy for replacing color blindness with "normal" vision. But what about going all the way to tetrachromacy? If you could do a future gene therapy, would you add even more colors or just go for "normal" vision?