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Ishihara color test plate for red-green color blindness

Fig. 1: Ishihara color test plate for red-green color blindness

It can be embarrassing to be in the business of design and have to ask someone what color is that? or spend all day working on a color palette. Jon Hicks of UK-based Hicksdesign shares my handicap and suggests a software application to help our colorblind designer brethren.

To illustrate what exactly I can and cannot see, look at Fig. 1. I see several individual colored dots but I do not see the number 74 within the mass of dots. Someone had to tell me it’s there.

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Posted in Design, Technology

November 20th, 2007 | 5:24 PM