Hi everyone! I’m a second-year Graphic Design student researching how colour vision deficiency (CVD) affects public transport accessibility.

For those with CVD, have you ever struggled to identify buses, routes or transport lines because of their colours? If so, could you share your experience, how you manage the situation, and what changes could make identification easier?

Your responses will help me understand the problem and explore inclusive design solutions. Thank you!

Hi! So as a color blind person, color blind options in video games really don't do anything for me, especially if they're just like a hue shift. My biggest gripe is with character creators!! I love playing WoW and I was very into Tomodachi life when it came out, and those games can be horrible for color blind people. My biggest issue when it comes to my color blindness is confidence in what I'm looking at. I tend to second guess myself and I'm never really sure that I'm choosing the right color. It's infuriating that these games don't at least have a little popup that gives you a name for each color if you hover over them or something that way I don't have to spend time looking for a guide online to find out the color. This seems like such an easy thing to implement and would be something everybody would benefit from. Do you guys know any other games that have this problem or are good about color blind options? Do you think there are any other solutions?

I grew up with this phenomenon and didn't realize that other people either didn't experience this, or had it happen on such a small scale that they didn't take notice of it. I'm talking about the visual experience that occurs after sunbathing, specifically having your eyes pointed towards the sun, of course with your eyelids closed, for a little while. My immediate experience after opening my eyes again is a literal grayscale of my vision. The longer I stay in that position, the "grayer" and longer the effect stays. After a few minutes the colors all come back.

Is this a common experience in the colorblind community? I assume this is caused by the lower levels of cone cells in the eye? So a correlation would occur with colorblindness.

She says just the colors of the world on a nice day can make her feel really happy. Like the leaves changing colors or just a clear blue sky. It made me wonder if there is a correlation between colorblindness and depression. Like she’s living in a cartoon while I’m in some dramatic film noir. I don’t know. Just an interesting thought I figured I would leave to hear what others think

I might have mild deuteranomaly. I can see bright reds and greens, but I have a brown shirt that every says is green, and circuit boards look teal to me

i made this photo today. i know that rainbow has 7 colors in it, but i just see it as a yellow ray, which makes me think that someone up there is just pissing at earth. am i the only weirdo here?

i can see the blue much better on photos from google though, it kind of depends on how bright the rainbow is

I am 24 and i always thought that green was a type of reddish color like orange and yellow, but my friends told me, that that is not what green is to them. Now i am really confused about this. Are they right?

The color of the stabilo who is not black

My husband insists that this is gray. Its a faded green. I need y'all to help me show him its fucking green.

Ol lady gets home and says, you know that’s pink right?

I have two boys- the 4 YO is definitely red/green colorblind and I have strong suspicions about the 2 YO also being red/green colorblind.

Something like this happens basically multiple times every day: him, “mom can you hand me that pink Lego?” Me: “sure, but just so you know, i see this as light grey.” You get the idea.

My thought process in “correcting” him is that he should learn what his tricky colors are just for his own awareness. But now I’m wondering if this is even worth it at all. Should I just let it go and give him the thing or whatever- 99% of the time I know what he means. He doesn’t seem annoyed by it for now.

Any thoughts? Do you appreciate when someone tells you they see the color differently than you or is it just annoying?

I see no problem with the coloring of the options🫣

Not sure how easy it is for people with normal color vision to spot the red window, but it’s definitely impossible for me.

Hey everyone. I have a website that helps creating custom paintings by numbers. One person left me an anonymous feedback that sometimes they struggle with paintings because they are red/green color blind.

I can't ask them directly as it was anonymous but it made me wonder if different kind of color blindness require different kind of adjustments when we talk about coloring by numbers and painting in general.

Is there anything specific you wish was different for you in coloring books/ paint by number kits?

Or is there any gift that can make him see colors? Even operations? Ehehe

Anyone use a reliable one?
Nothing complex, just light or dark shade of it

Hi reddit! I do have protonomaly and I've been working as a nurse for over five years. The last two years I've been working in the ED. I do have a hard time seeing if a patient is pale, have redness of skin, cyanosis etc so I have to rely on colleagues and other measurements to determine how sick the patient is.

I know that Enchroma doesn't do anything to fix colorblindness, that's why I haven't got them before. But I'm wondering if anyone has any experience using them as a tool to see certain shades of colors more clearly. For me, if they helped me see changes in skin color better they might prove to be useful for me.

I've searched for peer reviewed articles on the subject and found that there aren't many studies on the subject. The few studies I've found tells me that they might have a positive effect to help differentiate between colors better but with a low certainly.

So anyone in healthcare or any other field that finds them useful?

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Okay, this has been bothering me because I genuinely cannot stop thinking about it 😭

How do we actually know that the red I see is the same red that you see?

Like, imagine I look at a tomato and call it “red.” You look at the exact same tomato and also call it “red.” We both learned that that color is called red, so obviously we agree on the name.

But how do we know our eyes and brains are actually experiencing the same color?

Maybe my eyes respond to that light slightly differently from yours. Maybe what I experience as “red” isn't exactly what you experience as “red,” but we would never know because we've both been taught to use the same word for it.

And here's where my brain went even further:

What if humans all experience colors differently, but we don't realize it because we name colors based on the objects we see?

For example, maybe we all look at a tomato and learn “that's red,” but the actual experience happening inside each person's mind could be different. We could all have different versions of what “red” feels like while still agreeing that tomatoes are red.

So I started thinking: could we test this?

Maybe we could create some kind of “impossible color machine” that exposes people to precisely controlled wavelengths of light and measures how their retinas respond. We could test lots of people and compare their responses across the colors of the visible spectrum.

If everyone's eyes and neural responses were extremely similar, that would give us evidence that our color perception is biologically similar.

BUT then there's another problem.

Even if we found that everyone's brains responded exactly the same way, how would we prove that the subjective experience is identical?

How do we measure what “seeing red” actually feels like from inside someone's consciousness?

I don't know enough neuroscience to answer this, which is why I'm asking Reddit.

Is this already something scientists have tested? And if so, what can experiments actually tell us about whether two people experience the same color?

Because I came up with this at night and now my brain refuses to let me sleep until I know 😭

Sapete la differenza tra le edizioni dei libri con le tavole di ishihara? Oggi le ho viste tutte tranne il numero 57 e una linea da seguire. Sapete dirmi quale edizione comprare?

To preface, I have moderate to strong protanopia, and color has been a strong interested of mine for years. One of these interest include how do the colors I perceive, look to other people.

Using a colorblind simulating app, and my friends, I have made some discoveries.

For an example, when I see a hot pink shirt, I can recognize that that shirt is hot pink. The two example photos look the exact same to me, but my friends see the bottom image as a muted dusty lavender/purple. So what I see as hot pink is what purple looks like.

Here are some more comparisons I’ve learned

- My orange = other people’s yellow & amber

- My red = rusty browns and coppers

- My baby pink = blue and occasionally grey

- My Tiffany blue = a off white, grey

Now I just wish there was a way to do the opposite but unfortunately, a true red will always be outside of my comprehension I fear. :(

Have any of you done LSD, and if so, did you see enhanced colors? I have full color vision and I saw colors that don't exist, so I'm curious about the experience of color blind people. Hope this isn't offensive to ask!

I am F24 and the loml is colourblind (he has tritanopia 2) and he already had a colour corrector glasses but he never wears them, what can I gift him that may help with his colour blindness? I don't have much budget because I am still doing my masters while my man is already working, any help please.