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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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#1
Pug In A Tulip Field
#2
Melody Of The Night By Leonid Afremov
#3
Stoplight
#4
Rainbow Hair
#5
Bored Panda
#6
Parrots
#7
Nyan Cat
#8
Tomatoes
Cota Reyes 7 years ago
If someone with Tritanopia sees these images, would he see the "tritanopia" and "normal vision" the same?
#9
Frida Kahlo
#10
The Simpsons
#11
Autumn
#12
Apple
#13
Lake View
#14
Bouquet
#15
Rainbow Roses
#16
Skittles
#17
Rainbow
#18
Sunset
#19
Yellow Cabs
#20
Pizza
#23
Flag Of The United States (48 stars)
#24
Lavender Field
#25
Houses
#27
Holi Festival Of Colours
#28
Umbrella
Synestia 1 year ago
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.
#29
Piles Of Spice
#31
Forest In Autumn
Kipper Mcgee 7 years ago
Wow. Tritonopia. Looks like blossoms and spring all year round for them.
#33
Candy
#34
Color Splash
#35
Fruit
#36
Follow Me To Rajastan
#37
Medusa Nebula
Marcin Miszkurka 3 years ago
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?
#38
Chairs
#39
Hamburger
#42
Fireworks
Mohammad Rahman 7 years ago
hey, what if someone has either of the visions except normal, and sees these images, how'd these look like??
#44
Wheatfield With Crows By Vincent Van Gogh
#46
Colorful Houses
#48
Confetti
#51
Soap Bubbles
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What do you think ?
Cassie 7 years ago
This is fascinating. I love that Leonid Afremov's Melody of the Night looks beautiful in any color vision.
katarina 7 years ago
I just realized that this doesn't give me any representation of how colorblind people see the world as I am colorblind.
Lord Beerus 7 years ago
My older brother is red green colourblind... I've always wondered how he saw everything
Roos 7 years ago
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.
J. Philip vanHeijkoop 7 years ago
So if you compare this to the look of recent action movies you could say that Hollywood has Deuteranomalia?
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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 
Susanna Vesna 7 years ago
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?
Anna Brandigi 7 years ago
I kind of wish I had a palette for Tritanopia... the colors look really pretty!
Edi 2 years ago
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...
Garry Grierson 2 years ago
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!
Marianne Oelund 3 years ago
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.
Marcin Miszkurka 3 years ago
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?
Bart Eleveld 7 years ago
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".
Paul Andrei Abayan 7 years ago
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.
Andreya Varela 7 years ago
This was very interesting. My brother has protanopia and it was pretty cool to see how the world looks to him.
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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.
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
I thought this was a site for creative people. No like every other site it's for WELL CONNECTED CORPORATE PEOPLE ONLY!
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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!
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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 
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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 
Anna Voinova 7 years ago
I want that tritanopia filter. What should I do? Is there a close one in Instagram? Anyone? I'm lazy :D
Crystal-Lee Houle 7 years ago
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.
Ditto 7 years ago
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.
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
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 :)
Intensive Panda 7 years ago
Seems like Protanopia is the inability to see red from RGB and tratanopia the inability to see green
Amélie Bougie 7 years ago
Deuteranomaly seems like the world is in a sepia filter all the time.
madcow 3417 7 years ago
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/
judit vagnoni 7 years ago
Every way to see the colors is interesting and beautiful, these are one and special vision of the world. Good job
Alexander Guillen Castro 7 years ago
I love how deuteranomaly looks like a fancy instagram filter
Kwenela Tubbs 7 years ago
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?
Cassie 7 years ago
This is fascinating. I love that Leonid Afremov's Melody of the Night looks beautiful in any color vision.
katarina 7 years ago
I just realized that this doesn't give me any representation of how colorblind people see the world as I am colorblind.
Lord Beerus 7 years ago
My older brother is red green colourblind... I've always wondered how he saw everything
Roos 7 years ago
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.
J. Philip vanHeijkoop 7 years ago
So if you compare this to the look of recent action movies you could say that Hollywood has Deuteranomalia?
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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
Susanna Vesna 7 years ago
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?
Anna Brandigi 7 years ago
I kind of wish I had a palette for Tritanopia... the colors look really pretty!
Edi 2 years ago
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...
Garry Grierson 2 years ago
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!
Marianne Oelund 3 years ago
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.
Marcin Miszkurka 3 years ago
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?
Bart Eleveld 7 years ago
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".
Paul Andrei Abayan 7 years ago
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.
Andreya Varela 7 years ago
This was very interesting. My brother has protanopia and it was pretty cool to see how the world looks to him.
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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.
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
I thought this was a site for creative people. No like every other site it's for WELL CONNECTED CORPORATE PEOPLE ONLY!
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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!
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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
Ron Fleishman 7 years ago
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
Anna Voinova 7 years ago
I want that tritanopia filter. What should I do? Is there a close one in Instagram? Anyone? I'm lazy :D
Crystal-Lee Houle 7 years ago
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.
Ditto 7 years ago
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.
Alusair Alustriel 7 years ago
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 :)
Intensive Panda 7 years ago
Seems like Protanopia is the inability to see red from RGB and tratanopia the inability to see green
Amélie Bougie 7 years ago
Deuteranomaly seems like the world is in a sepia filter all the time.
madcow 3417 7 years ago
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/
judit vagnoni 7 years ago
Every way to see the colors is interesting and beautiful, these are one and special vision of the world. Good job
Alexander Guillen Castro 7 years ago
I love how deuteranomaly looks like a fancy instagram filter
Kwenela Tubbs 7 years ago
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?
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