Web Design for Color Blindness

July 31st, 2005

Are you colorblind? Ever wonder what that’s like while browsing the color-rich web? This site shows color palettes as they appear to people with several different kinds of color blindness.

However, the best feature is the ability to view entire websites through color filtering. Here is this page, viewed with “protanopia” selected (no red cones). For a particularly relevant example, look at one of the posts on color swatches we’ve posted, both with and without protanopia.

Link (Thanks, Dave!)

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