Color Blind Friendly Color Combinations

How to pick a colorblind friendly palette for your website.

Color blind friendly color combinations.

Color combinations to avoid for people with color blindness include. Instead the use of a number of default color blind friendly palettes would be much more straightforward. For instance green and magenta colors are the default choice for the production of color blind friendly overlays of fluorescence images. 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.

Red green green brown green blue blue gray blue purple green gray green black. 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. Below i discuss a number of color palettes that are suitable for coloring graphical elements in plots. Blue yellow color blindness is much rarer and affects men and women equally.

Those affected by protan color blindness are less sensitive to red light whilst sufferers of deuteranopia have the same problem with green.