Comments on: Are You Color Blind?

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:06:20 +0000

My mother was colorblind, so was my father, grandmother, grandfather, 2 uncles and great aunt. I am not…for some reason. Phew! I am an artist and I love bright colors! My mother ended up wearing black most of the time(or dark blue, dark purple and dark green)
It was kinda funny sometimes, but usually she could pull it off. White was also good for her, I’m really not sure if she could see any color at all.

By: Seanette

Seanette — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:17 +0000

To me, that one looked like 47, but as the Wikipedia article on color vision testing points out, online versions are a bit shaky on accuracy due to monitor configuration issues (or angle of monitor, for those of us on laptops). The print version is the one to trust (and I’ve always passed the print ones with no trouble).

By: dee

dee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:43:01 +0000

Both my dad and my brother are color blind. My dad just has the common red/green one, but my brother has both the red/green problem and one where all shades of blue (blue, purple, etc) look the same. The first time he took the color blindness test as a child, the eye doctor that he was screwing with him and made him take it again.

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! :)