A few days ago I released the F-M 100 Hue Color Vision Deficiency Test on Colblindor. Since then many people have taken the test which makes it possible to give you some added value on the test.
From today on you can also compare your result with “the rest of the world”. In the last tab of the test you will be able to see two diagrams: the first shows you the overall contribution of the different types. Your will be shown with an orange circle.
F-M 100 Hue Comparing Score
The second diagram below is all about the severity. Again your total error score is highlighted with an orange bar. This diagram shows you how others did in this test and if you are on the “better” or “not that good” side when it comes to see colors.
I hope you enjoy this added value and of course the whole F-M 100 Hue Test. If you have any questions or further suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact me.
This test is a very typical arrangement or also called hue disrimination test. It is based on 88 distinct hues (and not 100 as the name suggests) which are mixed randomly in four batches of 22 plates. Your task is to order them in a way that the colors appear to change gradually in steps from left to right. When you are finished a calculation can be done based on the misplacements of the plates.
F-M 100 Hue Scorecard
On the left side you can see a sample error score diagram. Each plate error score is shown and an overall total error score (TES) will be calculated. Based on this information the severity and type of your color vision deficiency can be deduced.
Unfortunately until now online color blindness tests are not that reliable. I am quite strongly red blind, which is not always shown by the test result. And my wife did the test and got quite a high TES—but she is definitely not color blind! This can be caused by ambient light conditions, different monitor settings and the setup of RGB color space. Hopefully we’ll soon get some sort of computer based color vision test which can also guarantee some reliable results.
You can restart the test as many times as you like. You can also compare your results with “the rest of the world” and wou will get some detailed diagrams of your test data.
The F-M 100 Hue Test is the third color blindness test which you can try out right here on Colblindor. Stay tuned for more color blindness tests and tools in the future and subscribe to my feed or email newsletter.
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All I can say: Amazing! Yoav Brill created this short film back in 2010 as his graduation film at Bezalel, the Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
The story is half-autobiographical. I am a color blind, and so are two of of my brothers, so the film is based both on my and their experiences, with additional dramatization of course. I’ve also held a couple of interviews with color-blind people as a research.
I definitely would like to see more of this. Just to make the world know about color blindness and how colorblind people might feel like. And of course to enjoy beautiful animated short films!
Because of that Paul decided to design a new kind of map, which enhances the color information of each subway line with an additional unique pattern. This way it should be possible for any type of colorblind person to read the map easily.
Colorblind London Subway Map
The combination of color and the idea of the scattered pattern supports the readability extremely. For me as a strongly red-blind person, it is much easier to spot the correct line and to find my way around the map. In opposite to most other pattern ideas, which highlight the pattern very prominently, this patterns are just a subtle support for the colors. And because of that, the pattern enhanced colored lines are not only easy to match but also don’t disturb the map as a whole.
In this case the designers went along a different path. They decided to use letters to identify the different lines uniquely. A combination of the line letter and the station number enhances the readability and makes it much easier to find your way around the map. This is definitely an improvement to the old version. But on the other side I personally think that the letters are also a little bit confusing and the map gets to crowded with all the information.
What do you think about the different subway maps for colorblind people from London and Tokyo? Do you think this could be a possibilty to enhance any kind of colored maps? Which color, pattern combination do you think is the most effective one for colorblind users?
Many people heared about the colorblind army men, who were chosen specifically to spot camouflage. There was a short report in the Time Magazine in the 1940’s about those Color-Blind Observers for National Defense. But is it really true, that colorblind people can spot some patterns better than people with a broader color vision?
Unfortunately since this report there was no further evidence, that any form of color vision deficiency might improve under certain circumstances the ability to spot anything which is camouflaged.
I’m sorry, but this test is no longer available online. The only picture I could preserve is the one below. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Now Daniel, a 5th grade student of Rockland County, colorblind himself, developed a little test to evaluate the relationship between color blindness and camouflage. Have a look at the example picture below. How long did it take to spot the animal on the picture? Or can’t you spot it at all?
Color Blind SIT Experiment
The test developed by Daniel includes 24 of such images. He collects data about how many of them you can spot and how long it takes. It would be great to see some more people—colorblind or not—taking this little camouflage and color blindness test.
Hope you like the test. Share your thoughts and ideas. And I hope we will see some results of it in the future.
