Color-Blindness-Table

From Low Vision Accessibility Task Force

Color Blindness Comparison Table

This is a text description of the Figures 4, 5 and & 6 in the Low Vision Requirements document. These figures show that colors that are different for people with full color perception may appear to be the same color for different types of color blindness.

The Position column refers to the clock position in the color wheel. The Gray values are the Brightness levels from Hue, Saturation and Brightness settings.

Position
in diagram
Full Color Red-Green
color blindness
Blue-Yellow
color blindness
No color
perception (grays)
12 Red Yellow-green Red 51%
1 Red-orange Yellow-green Red 55%
2 Orange Yellow-green Light red 66%
3 Orange-yellow Yellow-green Light red 74%
4 Yellow Yellow Pink 94%
5 Yellow-green Yellow-green Pink-gray 72%
6 Green Brown Dark blue-green 49%
7 Green-blue Medium-blue Blue-green 45%
8 Blue Blue Blue-green 30%
9 Blue-purple Dark-blue Dark blue-green 20%
10 Purple Medium-blue Gray 31%
11 Purple-red Yellow-brown Dark red 39%