r/ColorBlind

I've recently been diagnosed with protanomaly (red-green deficiency). I am living in Ireland. Does anyone know if there are contact lenses available for this condition here? I've been searching and there doesn't seem to be much information online. There was one place in County Cork but unfortunately they don't perscribe them anymore.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated and thank you in advance for any and all replies.

Hey everyone! I recently started wondering about driving with color blindness.
For those of you who are color-blind: how difficult or dangerous is it for you to drive a car, especially when it comes to traffic lights, brake lights, and road signs?
Do you currently drive? Have you ever had any problems or dangerous situations because of your color blindness?
And most importantly, how did you learn to deal with it? Did you develop any tricks or habits that make driving easier and safer?
I’d really appreciate hearing about your personal experiences!

So... I have an odd condition that I haven't been able to find a word for, so can y'all help?
Its not that I can't tell the difference between the colors on opposite sides of the color wheel (Like Red green, Yellow blue ect) (as far as I'M aware that is), Its that colors next to eachother on the colorwheel or in the rainbow look the exact same to me dependent on the shade... I often struggle with reds and oranges, and then oranges to yellow ect. As well as sometimes Blues and greens, and Pinks and purples, or pinks and reds, or Purples and blues.
I also struggle with shades but that's slightly different...
Is there a word for this...?

(Edit: For the record, i know colorblindness isn't not seeing color, I just worded it that way, I apologize folks. I edited it to say the correct things I meant 😅)

Does anybody UK based know of anywhere in Lincolnshire/Nottinghamshire or nearby where I could go for a Farnsworth D-15 test?

Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone!
I’m curious if anyone here has actually used glasses or contact lenses designed to help with color blindness.
Do they really make a noticeable difference in everyday life, or is it mostly just a temporary/novelty effect?
I’m considering buying a pair, but I’m not sure if they’re actually worth the money. I’d love to hear from people who have personally tried them - what type of color blindness you have, what you used, and whether you felt it was worth it.
Thanks!

I asked him about his cat. What color he was. He said he had different colors. I mentioned that calico cats are usually female. He said he didn’t know what color or type of cat (tiger like ) just said his cat was perfect.
Is there suck a thing are color ignorance?
I think he’s on the spectrum if that makes a difference. Just never heard of this. Is it like face blindness ?

Hi! I'm a non-colorblind Data Analysis student with ADHD and probably Autism. Being that I have 1 or 2 fairly profound disabilities that affect my work every day, I'm quite cautious and have a bit of anxiety around treating other disabled people fairly and in a way that doesn't make them feel singled out.

I wanted to make sure that going into my career I'm not making it awkward or otherwise disruptive for colorblind people who have to interact a lot with the graphs I'll be creating.

With that being said, I was thinking that it'd be best to send out an email to everyone asking them personally one-on-one if they are colorblind and if so, would they like it known by the rest of the team. That way when we're all sitting in a boardroom together and looking at accessible graphs and the boss says 'uhhhh can you change the color to the company colors please' (which is a mildly-nightmarish scenario for me), it won't cause any issues when I tell them that the graph is set up to cater for all people with all kinds of eyes.

Am I making too much of this or is this the right way to do it? Are there other suggestions you have? And do you ever feel like you'd rather your colleagues didn't know you were colorblind?

I (20F) noticed this summer I have a hard time distinguishing different shades of the same color. I worked a job where we would inspect dorm rooms, and when I’d look at our maroon mattresses, I couldn’t really tell when they were dirty because I could notice the typical darker staining my coworkers would see. My coworkers would come to the room and get into me saying it was obvious it had to be replaced- but I had no idea.

Could this be a kind of color blindness or just normal?

Colorblind man you've got me feeling down
Because i'll never wear your wedding gown
Colorblind man you've got me feeling blue
But you don't even know what that color is do you

ColorID color scanner app was already on the App Store for iOS (iPhone/iPad) users when I posted here last year. I built it for designers. I came here because I thought it could help colorblind people too, and I didn't want to guess at the features.

(Check last year's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorBlind/comments/1jq4a9v/im_building_a_color_identifier_app_and_want_to/ )

u/AKLmfreak wrote the list. u/SirMunzo and u/soul-of-kai added more. I said I'd come back. I went back and added those things.

What I added:

• Freeze. There's an on-screen toggle. Point, freeze, read the name. You don't have to hold still.
• Simple names. About 18 of them: red vs brown, blue vs purple, green vs yellow. Not "cerulean" or "slate." Just dark blue, brown, pink, etc. Color-blind mode is a toggle on the camera (eye icon) and in Settings.
• History. You can save a color when you freeze it. That's the capture list (paid feature after 3).
• Movable marker. Drag it onto the thing you want. It averages a small area around the marker, so a bright spot or a shadow is less likely to call orange "brown."
• Flash is there. On/off only.

What I still haven't done:

• Flash brightness isn't adjustable. Full on or off.
• Android isn't out. I started it, then the iOS side ate the year. I'll come back here if that changes. Sorry u/soul-of-kai.

One more thing, because subscriptions came up last time and I don't want to dance around it.

The app is still commercial. The rest of it is for designers, painters, architects. HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, RAL, plus paint catalogs (Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, Farrow & Ball, IKEA, PPG, and others). That's a different audience. That's how I keep working on it.

If a paywall comes up, you can just close it. Color-blind mode, the simple names, freeze, the marker, and live identification with camera keep working. Those are not behind a purchase. I left them free on purpose. If you just need "is this wire blue or purple," you shouldn't have to pay.

Pantone / RAL / paint catalogs / saving a big library of colors are paid. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

If you try it and the names are still wrong for how you actually see things, tell me. Same reason I posted last year.

You can download and try it for iPhone / iPad on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/colorid-color-identifier/id6743502447

If you try it, tell me what's still wrong or missing. Names that don't make sense, stuff I should add, stuff I should drop. That's why I'm posting again.

Thank you!

color identifier color scanner app, color blind mode

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?