Comments on: Named Pencils for the Colorblind

By: Angelo Zerbini

Angelo Zerbini — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:17:26 +0000

There’s a funny story I told when someone guess I’m colorblind. When I was a child, there was a geography test we were asked to paint a map following instructions: North region with “X” color, South with “Y” colour, and so on… I mixed all up! The teacher asked: “Don’t you know the color’s names?!” what a shame… Than my mon realise I had some kind of color blindness. Now I know its deuteranomaly, as far as I remember, I mix green with brow, blue with purple, pink with purple, sometimes red and brow… They are SO alike! It doesn’t bother me very much at all. Sometimes I just say I’m not very good with colours.
I’m having a great time in this site!
Greetings for all colourblind friends out there!

Ângelo

By: Daniel Flück

Daniel Flück — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:30:23 +0000

:-) Sounds like me!

By: robin

robin — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:18:28 +0000

hello there,
let me tell you my funny story.
i was in the primary school and we were supposed to make a picture of the spring. i am creative and i like to draw, so i was very proud of the trees and animals i drew. until, the professor came to me and asked: ‘and why is grass in your picture colored orange?’ i felt ashamed, but came up with a good answer: ‘normal is boring’.
best regards,
robin*

By: Primož

Primož — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:10:04 +0000

This IS usefull. I remember coloring a map for school and a friend comes by and says ‘why are you using brown when you should be using green?’ I was actually holding green in my hands (the friends knows of my coloblindness) and promptly swapped the pencil. That’s why i love Jolly color pencils since they have the color written on them – no mistake can be done then.

And like DOnald, i can also see all the colors, i just can’t differentiate between them correctly.

By: Donald H Locker

Donald H Locker — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:53:34 +0000

I actually have a pretty good idea of what colour names mean and how they relate to the shades of “real” colours – at least as my wife sees them. I see colours just fine – I can’t discriminate between them.

The other thing that I notice is that I don’t have good “colour memory.” I can sometimes discriminate two adjacent colour patches, but if they are separated, they become indistinguishable.