Color Blind Friendly Color Combinations

Blue yellow color blindness is much rarer and affects men and women equally.

Color blind friendly color combinations.

Below i discuss a number of color palettes that are suitable for coloring graphical elements in plots. The most common is red green color blindness where sufferers mix up all colors which have red or green as part of the whole color. To help you out here is a list of the color combinations that are known to cause trouble for people with color blindness. Red green green brown green blue blue gray blue purple green gray green black.

Instead the use of a number of default color blind friendly palettes would be much more straightforward. Those affected by protan color blindness are less sensitive to red light whilst sufferers of deuteranopia have the same problem with green. Color combinations to avoid for people with color blindness include. Green brown green red green blue blue purple blue gray light green yellow green black green gray.

Since the number of red green colorblind people is much higher than any other form of color blindness it should be your number one priority to address with your design.