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You’ll Be Amazed How People With Color Blindness See The World (57 Pics)
Ever wondered what do color blind people see? To satisfy the urge to find out, there's a website called color-blindness.com that lets you take a glimpse.
Despite the name, color blindness doesn't mean that people see the world in black and white. More than 99% of all colorblind people can, in fact, see color. Because of this, the term "color vision deficiency" (CVD) is considered to be more accurate. According to color-blindness.com, around 0.5% of women (1 in 200) and 8% of men (1 in 12) suffer from some form of CVD. There are several types of colorblindness, such as Deuteranomalia (which makes everything look a little faded), Protanopia (which makes everything seem a little green), and Tritanopia (greenish-pink tones), and only around 0.00003% of the world’s population suffers from total color blindness (Monochromacy).
Bored Panda decided to test various images to see how different colors look through different CVD lenses. Here's what we found on how do color blind people see! (h/t)
Normal vision
This is how different colors look to somebody who has normal vision.
Deuteranomalia
The most common of colorblind types is called Deuteranomalia. Around 4.63% of men and 0.36% of women experience this type of color vision deficiency, many of whom don't even realize. People with Deuteranomalia see a more subdued color palette, especially when it comes to colors like green and red.
Protanopia
When somebody has Protanopia, all shades of green and red look rather faded, whereas yellow and blue shades seem largely unaffected. Only around 1% of men experience this type of CVD.
Tritanopia
When somebody has Protanopia, all shades of green and red look rather faded, whereas yellow and blue shades seem largely unaffected. Only around 1% of men experience this type of CVD.
People with Tritanopia see colors with a greenish/pink tone. It's a sporadic form of color blindness and is believed to affect only 0.0001% of men and women.
Total color blindness (Monochromacy)
Total color blindness, or Monochromacy, is the rarest form of color vision deficiency. People who have it can only see in black and white, but it's estimated that only 0.00003% of the world's population is affected by this particular condition.
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Pug In A Tulip Field
Melody Of The Night By Leonid Afremov
Stoplight
don't forget that those affected don't know any different so they learnt to drive seeing the same lights they do now. Whilst seeing these lights might confuse you or I it's the norm for them
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Stop lights are a terrible example! My ex had the red-green deficiency and the color spectrum used is the stop lights was visible to him. Same thing with stop signs.
*gets a speeding ticket* "I didn't run a red light its YELLOW BOTH WAYS!!!
Till you go somewhere with the sideways ones! 😄
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For us it really isn’t. I have Protanopia and I have never been confused pulling up to a light. Thankfully the lights are for the most part pretty standard. Some of us, like myself, started off life with full color vision and lost it slowly over about 12 years. I learned to differentiate the different shades and can pretty accurately correlate them to their proper color. So it’s not as dangerous as you may think. That’s the most common question I get when someone learns I’m colorblind. “How do you tell the difference at a stoplight.” My answer is always the same, “ The same way you do.” 😉
Actually the green here is too dark. They are actually almost white for some of us
I am an adult and just a few years ago I discovered for the first time ever, that the walk signal man is NOT green. This revelation blew me away... as it made no sense to me when I got called out on it. When I told the person who called me out that I was colorblind they asked me why I thought it was green if I don't see greens very well, and the only response I could give is that I guess I always assumed it was the exact same color as the bottom light on the traffic light which I have apparently only just programmed myself to understand to be, "green" but apparently don't really know... And I actually do have problems with traffic lights if I am driving at night and the traffic light is in a rural area in the middle of nowhere, as I can't tell what color it is until I can get close enough to see whether the light is on the top or bottom. I usually just slow down until I can figure it out or just try to avoid driving in rural areas at night all together. Yes. Dangerous.
My father must have had protanopia. He couldn't see the colors of stoplights but he could see which one was lit and knew that Stop was at the top and Go was at the bottom, except when they lived for a time in Austin, Texas during WWII. There, some, but not all, stoplights were reversed with red at the bottom and green at the top. Mother said riding with him was definitely scary.
Thats the reason, why we still have 3 separate lights instead of one changing
If someone with CVD reads this, will they think they have normal vision since they will appear the same?
No, as the colours their eyes dont register have been pre done, which would make the examples appear more dull than the original.
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Rainbow Hair
Bored Panda
Parrots
Nyan Cat
Tomatoes
If someone with Tritanopia sees these images, would he see the "tritanopia" and "normal vision" the same?
Frida Kahlo
The Simpsons
Autumn
Apple
Lake View
Bouquet
Rainbow Roses
Skittles
Rainbow
Sunset
Yellow Cabs
Pizza
Flag Of The United States (48 stars)
Lavender Field
Houses
Holi Festival Of Colours
Umbrella
Normal vision is a very bad color palet. No equal spectrum and terrible bridges. At least add a proper yellow-green and proper turquoise for a bridge from blue to green and green to yellow. And add a proper violet, too. Protanopia and Tritanopia looks way better because of it.
Piles Of Spice
Forest In Autumn
Wow. Tritonopia. Looks like blossoms and spring all year round for them.
Candy
Color Splash
Fruit
Follow Me To Rajastan
Medusa Nebula
Do people with a different color vision have the ability to see a different range of light, not just the visible range that ordinary people have as standard? For example, do they see the TV remote control lamp flashing? Do they see them when they point the smartphone's camera at them? Do they see more in the world around us than others?
Chairs
Hamburger
Fireworks
hey, what if someone has either of the visions except normal, and sees these images, how'd these look like??
Wheatfield With Crows By Vincent Van Gogh
Colorful Houses
Confetti
Soap Bubbles
Parade
This is fascinating. I love that Leonid Afremov's Melody of the Night looks beautiful in any color vision.
I agree, I've always liked that one.. In the one with protanopia, it actually looks quite similar to van Gogh, who I also like quite a bit.
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I know this is a really old post, but I just discovered that my son has Tritanopia and I really wanted to know how he sees the world. I'm so glad this post was here to come back to in order to understand him better.
Load More Replies... I just realized that this doesn't give me any representation of how colorblind people see the world as I am colorblind.
True true. Lol did you just click on it because you had a color blindness too?
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My older brother is red green colourblind... I've always wondered how he saw everything
From looking at these pictures and things he has said I believe my husband is red/green colorblind also. If we are traveling in an familiar area the the traffic lights go across rather than up and down he has problems telling what light is lit. He was tested in the military for a certain type of colorblindness that was useful in discerning things that might be difficult with normal vision. He did not have that type and I wonder which of these is closest.
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Maybe it sounds stupid but sometimes it would be handy for my to see only black and white or that first type of colorblindness. Sometimes things are so bright . Sometimes I want to turn it of because it can be overwhelming sometimes. But just to be clear, I am glad that I am not colorblind to whole time. Only wish everybody could switch sight the way you can brighten or brighten a photo with photoshop.
Sensory overload is quite common and especially affects people with autism and even people with migraines. You can take a quiz online that tests the colors you are most sensitive to and even buy a pair of colored glasses that minimizes your exposure to colors that bother you. I found that changing my light bulbs from standard indoor bulbs to daylight bulbs made a huge difference for me at home because I am affected by yellow and am comforted by blue. You may have color sensitivities that you can minimize with colored glasses or changing your bulbs, too. You also mentioned scents. I have almost nothing perfumed in my house because the smells bother me. I use soap nuts (technically, it's a berry) for my laundry, shampoo, and hand soap because I found that traditional laundry products without their perfumes left my clothes smelly. I'm not convinced they clean at all and they're so expensive and just overwhelmingly perfumed.
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Yes but only seeing reds, pinks and blues gets dull after a while since you don't now what real color looks like.
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So if you compare this to the look of recent action movies you could say that Hollywood has Deuteranomalia?
I title this one: Multi Dimensional Rendezvous. I lost count of how many photos are in this one, but I did photograph all of them. Ö¿Ö Multi-Dime...033010.jpg 
I wonder how do they find out how these people see colour, if they never experienced the real colours...How can they tell someone that they dont see yellow properly, if yellow in their world is greenish for example..Anyone knows how this was determined in the first place?
They do a lot of tests to see if the person sees some color. For instance, there is a test with a lot of colored dots. Some of them are let's say green and form a number. If the person doesn't see that number, then they know they can't see that color. You can try at this site: http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/
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I kind of wish I had a palette for Tritanopia... the colors look really pretty!
I've wondered for a long time if we all see colors the same way, even if we're all NOT color-blind. As a kid, I was supposed to dress myself, and my mother told me that black and dark blue are a bad combination. I told her that I thought that both are black, or rather one is dark brown and the other is dark blue... What most call black isn't really black... Then, many years later, it hit me really hard when I realized that I was the only one who got offended by the smell of a colleague (I could tell which direction she had walked a minute ago, and getting too close made me sneeze). At the same time, others complained about a smell making them even puke, but to me, it was nowhere near as bad...
I am colourblind, which makes me wonder what I'm supposed to se here! The 'Normal' and 'Deuteranomalia' pictures all look very similar... are they supposed to!? For 'Melody Of The Night' I squinted for ages but couldn't see any difference at all!
Red loss in the deuteranomaly examples is greatly exaggerated. They would more appropriately be identified as deuteranopia. People with moderate deuteranomaly still see vivid reds and yellows which are easily distinguishable from browns and beiges, but they're not as saturated as in normal color vision. I would like to see new deuteranomaly examples with less processing, so that the reds and yellows are not completely eliminated.
Do people with a different color vision have the ability to see a different range of light, not just the visible range that ordinary people have as standard? For example, do they see the TV remote control lamp flashing? Do they see them when they point the smartphone's camera at them? Do they see more in the world around us than others?
So as someone who has mild deuteranomoly, these comparison pictures don't look that much different, except for the tritanopia. The other two just look a little less intense than the "normal".
I don't know if I am a color blind. I always see navy blue or dark blue as black and some dark colors of green seems black on me. At some of the pictures that are given in deuteranomaly, sometimes it happens to me. Also, I often find neon colors to be hurtful in my eyes. I hope someone could answer it.
This was very interesting. My brother has protanopia and it was pretty cool to see how the world looks to him.
I apologize for remarks made against bored panda last night. It appeared for a while, they were deleting all my posts. But they were here about a couple of hours later. Maybe there's a delay of some sort.
I thought this was a site for creative people. No like every other site it's for WELL CONNECTED CORPORATE PEOPLE ONLY!
Two of my posts have been deleted. Now I'm going viral against bored panda on Twitter. I've had enough of Corporate America blocking me from view!
Hope my post wasn't deleted. Don't see it. Try one more time. While I have all the respect in the world for Leonid Afremov and think he's a great guy, I feel I deserve to get a share of the spotlight too. While those well connected get all the fame and fortune, I get blatantly shut down and hidden from view by corporate bullies on every site I post. I hope this site is different and allows me to show my work. Here is my edited and I believe more colorful version of the painting posted above. I also have thousands of other very colorful pieces where I did the original photography. Enlarged-E...40a4d0.jpg 
I know Leonid Afremov. He's a very nice guy and an excellent artist. But I'm fed up with others less colorful getting all the spotlight, while I get blatantly shoved into the shadows by corporate bullies from every site. Please click on to my attachment which is my edit of the painting up above. Anybody who says it's not the most colorful thing they've ever seen is well.........colorblind. Ö¿Ö Some might complain I didn't do the original to this. But I have thousands of my originals I'd be glad to show people, which will be just as colorful as my edit here. Enlarged-E...5ef4e6.jpg 
I want that tritanopia filter. What should I do? Is there a close one in Instagram? Anyone? I'm lazy :D
But how do we know that the "normal" vision people are even all seeing the same thing? It's all in how you brain interprets the input.
I found out I had tritanopia very young in pre k. I had such a hard time with my colors! The doctors said I see my oranges and yellows as pink and red, and my greens as blue. Fascinating yes but sometimes I would like to see more than reds and pinks and blues while all you people who see true color think tritanopia is amazing.
My conslusion: if what you look at is beautiful, it will be this way for all people, no matter what sight disfunction they have. I saw it in the number 11, 17, 19 Leonid Afremov's painting... All stunning. It's a cheering thought, that even with a disfunction of this matter, people affected with it still can see the beauty of the world :)
Seems like Protanopia is the inability to see red from RGB and tratanopia the inability to see green
Deuteranomaly seems like the world is in a sepia filter all the time.
Thank you login system for losing my whole comment. In short: Tritanopia/Tritanomaly: Missing/malfunctioning S-cone (blue). Deuteranopia/Deuteranomaly: Missing/malfunctioning M-cone (green). Protanopia/Protanomaly: Missing/malfunctioning L-cone (red). Source: http://www.color-blindness.com/types-of-color-blindness/
Every way to see the colors is interesting and beautiful, these are one and special vision of the world. Good job
I love how deuteranomaly looks like a fancy instagram filter
This is amazing. I guess this wouldn't be so bad if you had this your entire life. How would a colorblind artist work look?
I'm red-green deficient. I don't know the actual name of that one. I can't see a lot of the numbers in the cards. But I can match any color when mixing paints and inks. It's weird. My red looks red to me. My green looks green to me. I have no way of knowing what red or green are actually supposed to look like.
Load More Replies... This is fascinating. I love that Leonid Afremov's Melody of the Night looks beautiful in any color vision.
I agree, I've always liked that one.. In the one with protanopia, it actually looks quite similar to van Gogh, who I also like quite a bit.
Load More Replies... I know this is a really old post, but I just discovered that my son has Tritanopia and I really wanted to know how he sees the world. I'm so glad this post was here to come back to in order to understand him better.
Load More Replies... I just realized that this doesn't give me any representation of how colorblind people see the world as I am colorblind.
True true. Lol did you just click on it because you had a color blindness too?
Load More Replies... My older brother is red green colourblind... I've always wondered how he saw everything
From looking at these pictures and things he has said I believe my husband is red/green colorblind also. If we are traveling in an familiar area the the traffic lights go across rather than up and down he has problems telling what light is lit. He was tested in the military for a certain type of colorblindness that was useful in discerning things that might be difficult with normal vision. He did not have that type and I wonder which of these is closest.
Load More Replies... Maybe it sounds stupid but sometimes it would be handy for my to see only black and white or that first type of colorblindness. Sometimes things are so bright . Sometimes I want to turn it of because it can be overwhelming sometimes. But just to be clear, I am glad that I am not colorblind to whole time. Only wish everybody could switch sight the way you can brighten or brighten a photo with photoshop.
Sensory overload is quite common and especially affects people with autism and even people with migraines. You can take a quiz online that tests the colors you are most sensitive to and even buy a pair of colored glasses that minimizes your exposure to colors that bother you. I found that changing my light bulbs from standard indoor bulbs to daylight bulbs made a huge difference for me at home because I am affected by yellow and am comforted by blue. You may have color sensitivities that you can minimize with colored glasses or changing your bulbs, too. You also mentioned scents. I have almost nothing perfumed in my house because the smells bother me. I use soap nuts (technically, it's a berry) for my laundry, shampoo, and hand soap because I found that traditional laundry products without their perfumes left my clothes smelly. I'm not convinced they clean at all and they're so expensive and just overwhelmingly perfumed.
Load More Replies... Yes but only seeing reds, pinks and blues gets dull after a while since you don't now what real color looks like.
Load More Replies... So if you compare this to the look of recent action movies you could say that Hollywood has Deuteranomalia?
I title this one: Multi Dimensional Rendezvous. I lost count of how many photos are in this one, but I did photograph all of them. Ö¿Ö Multi-Dime...033010.jpg
I wonder how do they find out how these people see colour, if they never experienced the real colours...How can they tell someone that they dont see yellow properly, if yellow in their world is greenish for example..Anyone knows how this was determined in the first place?
They do a lot of tests to see if the person sees some color. For instance, there is a test with a lot of colored dots. Some of them are let's say green and form a number. If the person doesn't see that number, then they know they can't see that color. You can try at this site: http://enchroma.com/test/instructions/
Load More Replies... I kind of wish I had a palette for Tritanopia... the colors look really pretty!
I've wondered for a long time if we all see colors the same way, even if we're all NOT color-blind. As a kid, I was supposed to dress myself, and my mother told me that black and dark blue are a bad combination. I told her that I thought that both are black, or rather one is dark brown and the other is dark blue... What most call black isn't really black... Then, many years later, it hit me really hard when I realized that I was the only one who got offended by the smell of a colleague (I could tell which direction she had walked a minute ago, and getting too close made me sneeze). At the same time, others complained about a smell making them even puke, but to me, it was nowhere near as bad...
I am colourblind, which makes me wonder what I'm supposed to se here! The 'Normal' and 'Deuteranomalia' pictures all look very similar... are they supposed to!? For 'Melody Of The Night' I squinted for ages but couldn't see any difference at all!
Red loss in the deuteranomaly examples is greatly exaggerated. They would more appropriately be identified as deuteranopia. People with moderate deuteranomaly still see vivid reds and yellows which are easily distinguishable from browns and beiges, but they're not as saturated as in normal color vision. I would like to see new deuteranomaly examples with less processing, so that the reds and yellows are not completely eliminated.
Do people with a different color vision have the ability to see a different range of light, not just the visible range that ordinary people have as standard? For example, do they see the TV remote control lamp flashing? Do they see them when they point the smartphone's camera at them? Do they see more in the world around us than others?
So as someone who has mild deuteranomoly, these comparison pictures don't look that much different, except for the tritanopia. The other two just look a little less intense than the "normal".
I don't know if I am a color blind. I always see navy blue or dark blue as black and some dark colors of green seems black on me. At some of the pictures that are given in deuteranomaly, sometimes it happens to me. Also, I often find neon colors to be hurtful in my eyes. I hope someone could answer it.
This was very interesting. My brother has protanopia and it was pretty cool to see how the world looks to him.
I apologize for remarks made against bored panda last night. It appeared for a while, they were deleting all my posts. But they were here about a couple of hours later. Maybe there's a delay of some sort.
I thought this was a site for creative people. No like every other site it's for WELL CONNECTED CORPORATE PEOPLE ONLY!
Two of my posts have been deleted. Now I'm going viral against bored panda on Twitter. I've had enough of Corporate America blocking me from view!
Hope my post wasn't deleted. Don't see it. Try one more time. While I have all the respect in the world for Leonid Afremov and think he's a great guy, I feel I deserve to get a share of the spotlight too. While those well connected get all the fame and fortune, I get blatantly shut down and hidden from view by corporate bullies on every site I post. I hope this site is different and allows me to show my work. Here is my edited and I believe more colorful version of the painting posted above. I also have thousands of other very colorful pieces where I did the original photography. Enlarged-E...40a4d0.jpg
I know Leonid Afremov. He's a very nice guy and an excellent artist. But I'm fed up with others less colorful getting all the spotlight, while I get blatantly shoved into the shadows by corporate bullies from every site. Please click on to my attachment which is my edit of the painting up above. Anybody who says it's not the most colorful thing they've ever seen is well.........colorblind. Ö¿Ö Some might complain I didn't do the original to this. But I have thousands of my originals I'd be glad to show people, which will be just as colorful as my edit here. Enlarged-E...5ef4e6.jpg
I want that tritanopia filter. What should I do? Is there a close one in Instagram? Anyone? I'm lazy :D
But how do we know that the "normal" vision people are even all seeing the same thing? It's all in how you brain interprets the input.
I found out I had tritanopia very young in pre k. I had such a hard time with my colors! The doctors said I see my oranges and yellows as pink and red, and my greens as blue. Fascinating yes but sometimes I would like to see more than reds and pinks and blues while all you people who see true color think tritanopia is amazing.
My conslusion: if what you look at is beautiful, it will be this way for all people, no matter what sight disfunction they have. I saw it in the number 11, 17, 19 Leonid Afremov's painting... All stunning. It's a cheering thought, that even with a disfunction of this matter, people affected with it still can see the beauty of the world :)
Seems like Protanopia is the inability to see red from RGB and tratanopia the inability to see green
Deuteranomaly seems like the world is in a sepia filter all the time.
Thank you login system for losing my whole comment. In short: Tritanopia/Tritanomaly: Missing/malfunctioning S-cone (blue). Deuteranopia/Deuteranomaly: Missing/malfunctioning M-cone (green). Protanopia/Protanomaly: Missing/malfunctioning L-cone (red). Source: http://www.color-blindness.com/types-of-color-blindness/
Every way to see the colors is interesting and beautiful, these are one and special vision of the world. Good job
I love how deuteranomaly looks like a fancy instagram filter
This is amazing. I guess this wouldn't be so bad if you had this your entire life. How would a colorblind artist work look?
I'm red-green deficient. I don't know the actual name of that one. I can't see a lot of the numbers in the cards. But I can match any color when mixing paints and inks. It's weird. My red looks red to me. My green looks green to me. I have no way of knowing what red or green are actually supposed to look like.
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