The connection between color blindness and leprosy I found and blogged about several days ago was so bizarre I had to investigate. The only reference to clinical research I could find on the subject was this page from PubMed: Indian J Lepr. 1992 Oct-Dec;64(4):483-6. Prevalence of colour blindness among patients with leprosy. Shwe T. Clinical Research Unit (Malaria), Department of Medical Research,...

Models for simulating the severe forms of color blindness are well developed. Not so for the milder and much more common types of colorblindness, the so-called anomalous deficiencies. These are tougher to model because they vary on an individual basis and can actually change over time. This is a far more common condition than any type of complete color blindness. Most of these resources focus on modeling...

While looking for technical definitions describing the different types of color blindness, I encountered this information. I copied the following section verbatim because it was so well stated and I was intrigued by the link to leprosy. The statement isn’t, “And, oh, by the way, more lepers have Red/Green color blindness than the population in general.” No. It is that having Re/Green...

A buddy of mine told me my blog looked dull. I thought about this for a moment and asked him if it was gray and brown. He said, “Yes.” What he sees is the way my blog looks in the picture below. Interesting, eh? I have to run off to Venice Beach right now (I think I just invented the “Blitter”) but I will come up with a new color scheme after I get back. I may go with some...

I’m still moving in so please pardon the mess. There’re still boxes to put away, furniture to move around and things to buy. You know how it is. But, please feel free to look around and offer any suggestions. I like bright colors. I also have a thing for old fashioned printers ornaments. So, you’re likely to see a lot of both on this blog. On a personal note, I am not disabled. However, I’ve...

Patterns for the Color Blind About 8% of the male population has some sort of color blindness. The color blind have the inability to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. Are you a working on a website? The patterns and examples on wearecolorblind.com will help...