Color Blindness Tools
This page shall bring together a series of tools related to color blindness. If you are colorblind you might know the situation, that you are looking for the right tool to accomplish a certain task. And it is not easy to find the right one when colors are involved and not colorblind people are providing it.
I hope with this page I can build up nice list of color blindness related tools to help you as a colorblind person in many situations. Or they even can be very interesting for not colorblind visitors.
Color Name & Hue
Do you know the feeling that you see a certain color but can’t say to which main hue this color belongs to? To somebody with a severe color blindness this is something that happens many times a day and something you get used to.
Color Name & Hue can help you out. However you need at least the RGB, HSB or Hex value of the color to find the closest matching color name and its corresponding main hue—with the help of the tool.
It is also possible to just slide around the color spectrum and get a feeling of the 1640 different color names and their corresponding hues.
I often find a color which I just can’t categorize—is it blue or purple, brown or green, red or orange—and Color Name & Hue provides me with the correct answer.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:43
Dear Sir,
Great Tools.
Are your Color Tools free usable ?
Wen yes, where is’t to download.
With regards,
willy Schmidhamer
January 22nd, 2008 at 14:48
Willy, up to now I’ve only release Color Name & Hue, which is an online tool and therefore can’t be downloaded onto your computer. In future I might also develop something for offline usage.
March 20th, 2008 at 1:08
Just thought I’d mention a great little program that I’ve used for years. It’s called WhatColor.
http://www.hikarun.com/e/
March 20th, 2008 at 7:59
Brian, thanks for the link. I also had a look at this tool and hope to write an article about it soon.
April 20th, 2008 at 16:01
If that would be available as a standalone program now, or as a plugin for Photoshop … nice tool.