How I (color blind person) see the world!

A lot of people were asking me "so, what do you see!!". This post is to make you understand what exactly I see. Well, after 27 years I discovered that I see the world in a different way than others, and I am a successful web designer, my color schemes are always bright and nice (this is what people tell me)

I was asking myself, do the green fields which i love look red to normal people?! do normal people see orange like my blue?! when you are born your parents teach you colors, they point to that box and tell you "this is green" they point to this red circle and say "this is red". To them it is green box and red circle but they don't know how you see it! you might see that red circle as what they see blue! so you will point to every blue color you see and say RED (they told you it is red), which they actually see as red! so they won't tell you, you are wrong!

This is of course wrong , I see red as you see it and same with green, but, I see it with different shades. After browsing the internet searching to understand more about color blindness and different types of it, I discovered that I'm red-green color-blind, I also found these images which will help you to better understand what I see.



The images above are a tool to make normal people able to imagine how color blind people see what they see.
In the first image, normal people see a number. But if they look at the 2nd and 3rd images they will see what color blind people see in the first image. The difference between the 2nd and 3rd is just different types of color blindness.



In the upper 3 images I can't see a difference in them, they look the same to me, but to you as normal person you'll see a number in the first one.



In this gradient you (as normal person) will see every number in a box of color which is different to the one next to it. I can't see these boxes, I just see numbers from 0 to 5 as one block with gradient from lime green to yellow but no boxes! same happen from 10 to 15 just a gradient.



The first earth image shows how normal people will see it. The second one shows how a person with a red-green color deficit (deuteranopia) would see it and the third shows how it looks for a blue-yellow color deficit person (tritanopia).



The first colorful hats image shows how normal people will see it. The second one shows how a person with a red-green color deficit (deuteranopia) would see it and the third shows how it looks for a protanopia person, another form of red-green deficit.



People with color deficiencies may have difficulty distinguishing certain colors (e.g., a red-green color deficiency means that reds and greens are more difficult to distinguish). But as this photo demonstrates, many other colors are just as distinguishable to a person with a color deficiency as to someone with normal color vision. The first image shows how normal people will see it. The second one shows how a protanope person would see it and the third shows how it looks for a tritanope person.



The first dotted image is an ishihara plate commonly used to check for red-green color blindness. While on the second image it is what a red-green color-blind person might see. Note that the digit (3) is practically invisible.

You now understand more about what I can see!
hmm, you can start donations now! :)

It is really important to make color tests to your kids!
Color test 1
Color test 2