Color Deficiency- test your skills
Ever wonder if you're color vision deficient? (Commonly referred to as color blindness) How would you ever really know unless there were some specific image you couldn't read properly?
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To get a better idea of your specific color issues, here is an informal test you can take the original card version of Ishihara's color test was designed to be carried out in a room adequately lit by daylight under controlled conditions).
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Want to see more? Here's a cool image simulatorThis is certainly an issue designers need to be taking into consideration, especially when designing environments for specific demographics such as the elderly (aging eye has limited color perception, etc.) Any color deficiencies out there amongst readers? How do you cope?
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No deficiencies in this department and I count my lucky stars. For me there are too many subtle nuances to contend with! Just being able to see makes it worth it to be alive.
I work for a consulting firm. Four of the six consultants are color deficient in some manner. That makes graphs and PowerPoint presentations interesting. I depend on line widths and hatchings, as well as sharp contrasts.
Lucky for me, no problems at home, where I can have more subtle fun!
Some years ago at a CMG (ColorMarketingGroup) meeting I had the suspenseful fun of taking this test.Now called the "Farber Munsell 100 Hue Test' (check it out here http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/ProductImage.aspx?pid=755&lid=8), at the time it was by Gretag Macbeth.
It's about setting in color-order the little 1/2" round color pieces. I only transposed 1 (or maybe that means...2), it was fun and exciting. That's from the 85 color pieces spanning the visible spectrum. I guess some of us get our thrills in strange ways!
Then this little gadget showed up this morning from Haft2know.
http://haft2.com/haft2know/2010/04/colour_for_the_blind.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Haft2know+%28Haft2Know%29
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