Recent Articles
Richard’s Life as a Color-Blind
- Posted on February 8th, 2010
Richard was so friendly to write his answers in detail on The Color Blindness Project Questionnaire. Thanks! I thought putting this together into an article by itself makes it more public to other interested readers. So the here are his answers:
When did you first discover you were colourblind?
My parents suspected when I was about 4. [...]
the clock i cant see — Ishihara Dots Everywhere
- Posted on February 7th, 2010
I just stumbled upon the clock i cant see. The sonodesign team used the Ishihara plates as starting point for the design of this nice clock. Can you read the numbers? I definitely need my sons assistance.
clock i cant see — Ishihara plates based clock
It is not the clock to buy while your colorblind son [...]
The Color Blindness Project Questionnaire
- Posted on January 17th, 2010
Joanna is doing a project on color blindness. She wants to create a guidebook for parents to help them in the diagnosis of their child’s color vision. To fulfill her project she created an online survey to research and discuss the topic of color vision deficiency.
The proposed content of her guidebook sounds very promising. It [...]
ColorAdd: A Color Coding System
- Posted on January 13th, 2010
The designer Miguel Neiva developed a color coding system called ColorAdd which shall help colorblind people around the world. Simple and easy with many applications. Let’s have a closer look at it.
ColorAdd Basic Color Shapes
The system is based on three basic color shapes representing the primary colors blue, yellow, red and two forms for black [...]
Do Color Blind People Perceive a Colorful Life?
- Posted on December 18th, 2009
Sarah contacted me to learn more on how color-blind people perceive our colorful world. Everybody can generate images which simulate this visual handicap with my color blindness simulator Coblis. But this isn’t the whole story, as those pictures can’t tell you how colorblind people think about this colorful—or in this case colorless—world.
Sarah put together some [...]
