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Color Blindness Simulator

About 8% of men and 0.5% of women have a color vision deficiency. Simulate how your palette looks to someone with protanopia, deuteranopia or tritanopia — with an adjustable severity slider and a live text preview. Everything runs in your browser.

Simulate your colors

0% = normal vision, 100% = full dichromacy
Your colors as seen with normal vision and under the three main types of color blindness
OriginalProtanomaly
(red-weak)
Deuteranomaly
(green-weak)
Tritanomaly
(blue-weak)
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Live text preview

Simulation uses color-vision-deficiency transforms applied in linear RGB space using the physiologically-based severity matrices of Machado, Oliveira & Fernandes (2009), with interpolation between severity levels. For hard WCAG numbers on a specific pair, use our contrast checker; for a full accessible palette, try the palette generator. To check an entire live page, run the free Accessibility Scanner.

What the three types mean

Practical rule: never rely on hue alone to convey meaning. Pair color with icons, labels or patterns — that is also what WCAG SC 1.4.1 requires.

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