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
i opened this post thinking i could see how normal people see the world. but i have Trianopia so it dosnt work.
I feel bad for you. Your entire world is mostly reds and pinks
Load More Replies...I have a mild form of deuteranomaly. I am guessing that pictures representing the heavy form of every type of colour blindness. The only case I can't recognize properly a colour is when it is already faded. But in 99% of those cases I see the colour correctly. Now I understand why as I child always liked blu eor black colour. It was always the most vivid colour in my eyes
Makes sense, I like mostly Black, Blu or Green cause They are the main colors I see.
Load More Replies...Being a form of colour-blind I can affirm this is not quite right. Firstly EVERYONE sees colours differently (graphic designers often have huge arguments about them due to this) so every colour-blind person has a slightly different version of "blindness". Some people even see certain colours better than in normal vision by becoming more sensitive to it just like blind people might hear or feel or smell better. Things here are presented in a theoretical way looking at them from a normal persons' point of view or understanding, in the same way as if well-off people tried to explain to other well-off people how they imagine poor people see the world without ever having lived it. If things were really like this then if a normal person was looking at a protanopian image and wanted a colour-blind person to understand what he sees, he would give the protaopia-suffering viewer the normal vision image to look at. Adjusting colourdeficient vision would thus also be possible, which it isn't.
How would one know if they didn't have "normal vision" as it's normal to them..
They wouldn't be able to distinguish certain colors from others the way we can. So protanopia can't really tell greens and reds apart from grays. deuteranomolia can't really tell apart orange from red and all red/green stuff is harder to distinguish from gray but not impossible. Tritanopia basically can't see any of the yellow in anything and can't even see purple (I guess, idk not an expert). So pretty much they see less colors. There is no test for people who see MORE colors except maybe this one: http://xritephoto.com/online-color-test-challenge. But you're right, "normal" is all relative. Once they decided normal was what most people saw they could test for abnormal
Load More Replies...As I think color blind test doesn't occur in India according to research of dr. john smith on colorblindtest.co there are only 0.2% people are color blind in india.
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Melody Of The Night By Leonid Afremov
These versions are all gorgeous. I would love to try having some kind of color blindness someday, and see what it's like.
trust me, being colour blind is not something you want
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Can anyone tell the difference between deuteranomaly and normal please, i cant tell the difference
If i could have any color blindness i would have tritanopia!
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
Load More Replies...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! 😄
Load More Replies...Luckily the sequence is always the same, even in other countries, but still...
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.” 😉
Rainbow Hair
It perfectly fits the phrase "Seeing the world through rose colored glasses".
Load More Replies...I have very mild tritanopia and I think they all look the same.... I don't know how you see it
I just can't figure out that how should I explain it to you. The green part you see isn't green. It has 2 shades of blue and at very edge of right side it's purple. In the middle it's not white, it's light shade of green. And then the pinkish part is orange. The edge of left is red, I think that one is not needed to tell. Please don't take it as I'm making fun of you. I just wanted you to know. I don't know that what I did will help or not.
Load More Replies...Me. I really can never imagine myself not to be able to see rainbow colors. It is given to you that's why you are saying this
Load More Replies...It sounds fun in theory, but I can assure you, it’s not a good time lol. I have Protanopia and it sucks a big one! Instead of red and green everything looks blue and baby s**t brownish yellow.
Why did I think this would explain anything to me when I have color deficiency... (the examples that aren't protanopia and normal vision)
I have Tritanopia and I can only see varius shades of green, red, white, grey, and black, and of course skin colors
Bored Panda
I like it how everybody comments like Tritanopia is some kind of Wonderland.
Load More Replies...Parrots
I liked his video but later heard he faked it for entertainment purposes.... I wonder!
Load More Replies...Macaws are long-tailed, often colourful New World parrots.
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That's what I was thinking! (Aquafresh of course)
Load More Replies...So I guess tritanophia is mostly red, pink, teal, turquoise, and shades of grey?
Tomatoes
If someone with Tritanopia sees these images, would he see the "tritanopia" and "normal vision" the same?
I got deuteranomaly and do not see differences compared to normal view
Load More Replies...Hmm.. nothing looks delicious.. we must be grateful for little things like that, to hv normal vision..
I did once. I was at the grocery store and an old man asked me if the bananas he was holding were ripe.
Load More Replies...Frida Kahlo
The Simpsons
Of course anyone with some form of color blindness isn't seeing any of these as they are. The "normal vision" one should look to them like whichever type of color-blindness they have.
yeah ... the tv when i was a kid shows exactly the tritanopia colors
Funny that in this example Protanopia is so close to normal because yellow and blue are unaffected
The Simpsons have flesh tone with tritanopia instead of their normal yellow.
Autumn
Yes! Nature is just beautiful in any color :)
Load More Replies...deuteroanomaly = winnie the pooh protanopia = LOTR tritanopia = narnia
The normal, deu, and pro are almost exactly the same to me, what am I missing from the normal since I am red green CB?
Apple
I don't think that I would want to eat apples of I were a Protanopia....
Lake View
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This is the test. You are supposed to see numbers in the middle. If you don't see any number, you should probably ask your doctor about it ;-) more of these test are available on the internet as "color blindness test" ;)
i would love to wake up and have my vision change to Tritanopia for 1 day
Bouquet
Rainbow Roses
Skittles
Again, this is why I find food in Protanopia not very, tasty looking...
Rainbow
That's how i see the world :) I see no difference between tritonopia and normal. Everyone keeps saying it's beautiful, it's nice to know I'm not missing out on too much.
Load More Replies...Right now I'm crying because I do not have any colour blindness, and I'm so thankful to that. I would never want that. I just don't know how people wants to have Tritanopia, I just don't get them!!! How can they want this world to look only in few shades of 2 or 3 colors. Does that looks adventurous??? I wish the people wants it could actually exchange it to the people who have it in real. May be they will get what they were wanting !!!
Sunset
Yellow Cabs
I think, that's pink ... wait a minute, are you ... :)
Load More Replies...Pizza
All the colorblind pizza's look gross! I'm surprised colorblind people still have an appetite ;)
Load More Replies...normal pizza: how it looks in the pictures. deuteranomaly: what someone on all recipes posted. protanopia: what it looks like when I make it. tritanopia: what it looks like when my friend who doesn't cook makes it.
That pizza looks disgusting with protanopia. It looks like moldy bread with goose s**t on it.
Peacock
Flower Field
Flag Of The United States (48 stars)
with tritanopia looks like you see the world with a photo filter every time
Lavender Field
Houses
Macaroons
Holi Festival Of Colours
Yes. It signifies the win of good over evil. Winter is leaving and the arrival of Spring. People forget bad things and forgive others. And while we are doing all that, we also throw colours at each other.
Load More Replies...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.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rainbow+umbrella
Load More Replies...Piles Of Spice
They are cones of plastic or cardboard with spices etc stuck on. Disappointing, I know.
Load More Replies...Pepsi Logo
Forest In Autumn
Wow. Tritonopia. Looks like blossoms and spring all year round for them.
Candy
It looks colourful to us. We don't have your reference.
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Fruit
If you never knew the difference I don't think it would matter
Load More Replies...Must be hard for protanopia people to tell when fruit is fully ripe.
yep, this is why humans and many primates evolved RG colour vision in the first place
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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?
They are often reported to have better vision in the dark. Which makes sense because when the cones stop sending signals the rods take over, which are for low light conditions
Load More Replies...Chairs
Hamburger
Looks like burger king's Halloween black burgers jave become a trend with other colours
Load More Replies...I would probably be much skinnier if I had protanopia. The food all looks disgusting.
Rio De Janeiro Carnival
Butterfly
Fireworks
hey, what if someone has either of the visions except normal, and sees these images, how'd these look like??
All three except the tritanopia look the same to me.
Load More Replies...Cup Of Coffee
Wheatfield With Crows By Vincent Van Gogh
Persistence Of Memory By Salvador Dali
Colorful Houses
Fish
Confetti
Lithuanian Nature
Soap Bubbles
For me it's the total opposite. Normal vision with emphais on green, pink and greenish turquoise looks dope. Tritanopia is also nice, but the green and greenish turquoise colors became one color: turquoise which makes it a bit less interesting.
Load More Replies...Pantone Swatches
Lego
Hummingbird
Powerpuff Girls
Hot Air Balloon
Parade
Understanding different spectrums of vision not only applies to human vision deficiencies but also to the extraordinary ways other species perceive the world. Birds, for example, detect colors invisible to the human eye due to their enhanced color vision capabilities. Exploring how these avian creatures perceive the vibrant spectrum can provide additional insight into the variety of color perceptions experienced by individuals with color vision deficiency.
This fascinating topic is further examined in the explanation of bird vision versus human vision, offering a unique perspective on our visual limitations.
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?
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?
