Originally Posted by
bigstickNow that's
exactly the kind of warmth I would expect to see in Panama City - nice work!
I'm actually colour blind too. Apparently 8% of men are. I'm severely red/green colour blind which means not only that I have trouble distinguishing red from green and brown, but blue and purple look almost the same, and pink looks grey.
I can see dark fuchsia pink, and salmon pink, but otherwise - nope.
I can see bright scarlet (there's no question that it doesn't look the same for me as it does for others) but I can't distinguish many other shades of red. When I was a student, my TV lost all the red colour and I didn't notice. People would come to my house and they would all say "What is wrong with your TV?". I would just shrug and say, "Nothing - it looks fine to me"
The whole spectrum of purples merges with blues, so 'blue' to me is an extraordinarily rich range of the spectrum, as is 'orange'.
I can see lime green and bright grass green, but the minute the hue intensity is reduced and colours become more subtle, I'm in trouble.
There are some interesting simulators that people find interesting
here and
here. There is even an app
here. These things may help you to understand what your client
can see.
For me, the before and after with the red and green options selected look pretty similar, but my family and work colleagues find it fun looking at these sites with me.
The thing is that it's not that we can't see colour or that what we see doesn't appear to be vivid to us, we just don't see the world nearly as vividly as everyone else!
I find the colour scheme very warm, pleasant but a bit 1970s. It's all a bit yellow and brown. We can usually see colours like burnt umber and mustard, and blues work really well. Subtle blues pinks and lilacs though - not so much.
It's not that they don't look nice, but if put together they look a bit insipid. My wife bought me a scarf for Christmas that she liked, which happened to have these types of subtle colour, and although she thought it looked great, I thought it just looked a bit bland.
Turns out that it was actually a woman's scarf and she hadn't read the label, which is great, because now she has to take it back, and it's not because I'm being picky