color blindness

design tips

• When designing your site, switch to black and white (desaturate in PhotoShop) to see if it still works after removing color
• Ask color blind colleagues or friends for their opinion
• Save versions of your design using the PhotoShop color blind palettes below to see the design as a color blind person would

color palettes

• These are the Adobe Photoshop versions of the Protanopia and Deuteranopia palettes:
• Right click to save as
• Save in \Presets\Color Swatches\Adobe Photoshop Only\ in your Adobe Photoshop program folder
  • protan.act
  • deutan.act

instructions

• In Photoshop, create your image and then:
• Image > Mode > Indexed color
• Palette > Custom
• Load
• Find the appropriate palette

other resources

• Downloadable Photoshop filter for checking color-blindness -- http://www.vischeck.com/showme.shtml
• Bt.com - Safe web collors for color deficient vision -- http://innovate.bt.com/people/rigdence/colors/index.html

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