Comments on: Are You Color Blind?

By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:22:22 +0000

omg im color confused to!
i cant see purple, the color yall call purple I call pink

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:56:54 +0000

If colour blind (or even normal) people cannot see the image (I am colour blind and I cannot :-(
Try this software eyepilot
at colorhelper dot com or google for it.

It has several tools for colour blind to see colours.. To see this image, select “GRAY” in the options and select “Light” check-box and then set he scale to about 17% and keep clicking on several points in the image.. on clicking certain locations you you should be able to see a faint 49. (for me it works when I click at about (0.25, 0.4) x,y coordinates considering bottom left as origin.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:58:20 +0000

I am colour deficient according to the standard Ishihara plates. Why a grown man would want to place coloured dots in a circle is beyond me. The accident causing ability of colour deficient men is frankly, overexaggerated. I can see some numbers when I shouldn’t and none where I should. Those plates are not infallible. The marble square has a number in it written somewhat badly, but can be seen when the computer screen is tilted downwards. Having the screen upright is too bright. Has anyone ever thought that some people may have super colour perception beyond “normal”?

By: James

James — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:27:31 +0000

We had a friend when we were little that was color blind and didn’t tell us. We found out one day while we were playing a very annoying game of RISK.

By: Lina Beena

Lina Beena — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:52:15 +0000

Interesting post and interesting to hear other people’s stories!

I am not colour blind but I do suffer from colour ‘confusion’ like you. But I couldn’t really find anything on the wiki page or in this post that fitted my description.. I can’t really distinguish things that are purple-blue, especially if they are darker hues or a mixture.. I almost always say things are purple when they are MORE blue (let me roll my eyes at those pedantic people with PERFECT colour vision. ugh!) or say things are blue when they are more purple. Even when placed side by side I don’t know which one is MORE blue or purple.

Same with aqua-blue colours which are either more green or more blue, I always get it wrong. Or yellow-green colours. My brother is an artist and he paints, so he deals with a lot of paint colour and pallettes and can almost always tell me that I’m wrong. I don’t have too much problem with reds and yellows.

I can read the numbers fine in the test. But to *name* the colours would be tough!!

By: Carol Tietsworth

Carol Tietsworth — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:03:03 +0000

I have an inherited color blindness, it appears mostly when any of us attempt to play Uno. It says on the box that there are 4 colors I only get red, yellow and that grey stuff. Rather disheartening to have the grandchildren yell, “No Mommom, that’s the wrong color!” My daughter also has it and she also has a real bad sensitivity to light, to the extent that she is required to wear darkly shaded glasses. We also all have different intensities of “night-blindness”.

By: Higgins

Higgins — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:28:03 +0000

Hmm…well, I got the image from Wikipedia; it’s possible there’s something wrong with it. Not being able to see anything there myself it’s sort of hard to judge whether it’s the image or me. (Or…us! :)

By: Pointy-Hatted Geek

Pointy-Hatted Geek — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:58:53 +0000

I can’t even tell that the second number is a nine, and I’m not at al color blind! (That I know of.)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:01:46 +0000

Are you sure there is a hidden number in that picture? I’m suffering protanopia – or at least very strong protanomly. In other words this is red-blind, with often the same problems as green-blind or -weak as you are.

There are different types of color blindness tests available online. You might like to have a look at the category Tests of my blog Colblindor, where you can find some of them.

By: christin

christin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:42:36 +0000

I can not tell the difference between black,blue,purple and green. Sad, because apparently green is a colour I look good in!