Color blindness simulator

How a color looks with protanopia, deuteranopia or tritanopia (red, green or blue color blindness), using the Machado et al. (2009) model.

Aggiornato Esempi verificati: 4

#RRGGBB, a CSS name, rgb(), hsl() or oklch().
Prova
Simulated color
#9F8F36
Simulated color: #9F8F36
Protanopia
#786D39
Tritanopia
#FE1B49
Color shift (ΔE OK)
0.188
This simulates complete loss of one cone type (severity 1.0). The milder anomalous forms, which are more common, shift colors less.

Without green-sensitive (M) cones, #E74C3C is seen roughly as #9F8F36, a shift of 0.188 in OKLab distance. Don't rely on this hue alone to carry meaning; pair it with text, shape or a lightness difference.

Original and simulated

Original
#E74C3C
Protanopia
#786D39
Deuteranopia
#9F8F36
Tritanopia
#FE1B49
Come si calcola S
  1. Linearise the sRGB channels

    (R,G,B)lin=(0.7991, 0.0723, 0.0452)(R, G, B)_{lin} = (0.7991,\ 0.0723,\ 0.0452)
  2. Apply the deuteranopia matrix

    [0.3673220.860646−0.2279680.2800850.6725010.047413−0.0118200.0429400.968881][0.79910.07230.0452]=[0.34540.27460.0374]\begin{bmatrix}0.367322 & 0.860646 & -0.227968 \\ 0.280085 & 0.672501 & 0.047413 \\ -0.011820 & 0.042940 & 0.968881\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}0.7991 \\ 0.0723 \\ 0.0452\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}0.3454 \\ 0.2746 \\ 0.0374\end{bmatrix}

    Machado et al. severity-1.0 matrix, applied in linear RGB as colorspacious and DaltonLens do.

  3. Re-encode to sRGB

    #E74C3C→#9F8F36,ΔEOK=0.1875\text{\#E74C3C} \rightarrow \text{\#9F8F36},\quad \Delta E_{OK} = 0.1875

    Channels are clipped to 0–1 before the sRGB curve and rounded half up to 8 bits.

Informazioni su Color blindness simulator

The simulator converts the color from sRGB to linear light, multiplies it by the Machado, Oliveira and Fernandes (2009) matrix for the chosen type of color vision deficiency, clips each channel to the 0–1 range and converts back to sRGB. The severity 1.0 matrices used here model complete loss of the red-sensitive (protanopia), green-sensitive (deuteranopia) or blue-sensitive (tritanopia) cones. The color shift is the straight-line distance between the original and simulated colors in OKLab.

Designers use it to check whether a color still carries its meaning for people with color vision deficiency. The default red, #E74C3C, becomes the olive #9F8F36 with deuteranopia, a shift of 0.188 in OKLab, and #786D39 with protanopia.

The milder anomalous forms, such as deuteranomaly, are more common than the complete ones and shift colors less, so the simulation shows the strongest effect. Displays and viewing conditions also change how colors look.

Esempi svolti

Alizarin red with deuteranopia

Colore
#E74C3C
Vision type
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
Simulated color
#9F8F36
Protanopia
#786D39
Tritanopia
#FE1B49

Fonte di verifica: Separate Python 3.8 decimal script: sRGB → linear (IEC 61966-2-1), Machado 2009 severity-1.0 matrix, clamp, re-encode, round half up

Pure red with protanopia

Colore
#FF0000
Vision type
Protanopia (no red cones)
Simulated color
#6D5F00

Fonte di verifica: Separate Python 3.8 decimal script: first matrix column (0.152286, 0.114503, −0.003882) re-encoded; blue clamps to 0

White is unchanged (edge)

Colore
white
Vision type
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
Simulated color
#FFFFFF
Deuteranopia
#FFFFFF
Protanopia
#FFFFFF

Fonte di verifica: Each Machado matrix row sums to 1 within 1e-6, so linear (1, 1, 1) maps to itself (Python 3.8 row sums)

Blue with tritanopia

Colore
#0000FF
Vision type
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
Simulated color
#006B96

Fonte di verifica: Separate Python 3.8 decimal script: third matrix column (−0.178779, 0.147602, 0.303900) re-encoded; red clamps to 0

Domande

How common is color blindness?

About 8% of men and 0.4% of women of European ancestry have red-green color deficiency, according to a 2012 review of population surveys by J. Birch in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A; among men of Chinese and Japanese ethnicity the figure is 4% to 6.5%. The US National Eye Institute puts it at about 1 in 12 men.

What is the difference between protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia?

Each is the complete loss of one type of cone. Protanopia (no red-sensitive cones) and deuteranopia (no green-sensitive cones) make red and green impossible to tell apart. Tritanopia (no blue-sensitive cones) confuses blue with green, purple with red and yellow with pink, according to the US National Eye Institute. The milder forms, protanomaly, deuteranomaly and tritanomaly, shift colors less.

What is the most common type of color blindness?

Deuteranomaly, reduced sensitivity of the green-sensitive cones that makes some greens look redder, is the most common type, according to the US National Eye Institute. Red-green deficiencies as a group are far more common than blue-yellow ones. This simulator shows deuteranopia, the complete form of the same deficiency, which is the strongest case of that confusion.

How do you make colors accessible to color-blind users?

Don't use color as the only way to convey information. WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.1, Use of Color (level A), requires another visual cue such as text, a pattern or an icon, and criterion 1.4.11, Non-text Contrast (level AA), asks for a 3:1 contrast ratio between interface components or graphics and the colors next to them. Check important color pairs here under all three types.

Quanto è preciso «Color blindness simulator»?

La precisione dipende dai dati inseriti e dalle ipotesi del metodo. Il calcolo decimale usa 50 cifre significative, ma stime, metodi numerici e dati di origine possono essere meno precisi; l’arrotondamento visualizzato non elimina questi limiti. Esempi svolti verificati con fonti indipendenti: 4. Per esempio, «Alizarin red with deuteranopia» viene verificato con Separate Python 3.8 decimal script: sRGB → linear (IEC 61966-2-1), Machado 2009 severity-1.0 matrix, clamp, re-encode, round half up.

Da dove proviene il metodo?

Machado, Oliveira & Fernandes (2009), A Physiologically-based Model for Simulation of Color Vision Deficiency, IEEE TVCG 15(6):1291–1298; Machado et al. — simulation matrices for severities 0.1 to 1.0; DaltonLens — Understanding CVD simulation (matrices apply to linear RGB).

Informazioni su questa calcolatrice

[R′G′B′]lin=ΦCVD[RGB]lin\begin{bmatrix}R'\\G'\\B'\end{bmatrix}_{lin} = \Phi_{CVD} \begin{bmatrix}R\\G\\B\end{bmatrix}_{lin}

Fonti

  1. Machado, Oliveira & Fernandes (2009), A Physiologically-based Model for Simulation of Color Vision Deficiency, IEEE TVCG 15(6):1291–1298
  2. Machado et al. — simulation matrices for severities 0.1 to 1.0
  3. DaltonLens — Understanding CVD simulation (matrices apply to linear RGB)

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