Ask HN: I am colorblind

I think game devs could easily associate a color with a pattern that would assist color blind gamers. It would be a good idea for an industry wide standard to be set. An extra ~~8% of male players is worth chasing after. Women are fortunate only ~~0.5% have this problem

It’s a serious disability. No one should say otherwise.<p>If you have an iOS 11 device, Settings &gt; General &gt; Accessibility &gt; Display Accommodations &gt; Color Filters is really amazingly useful for one key reason:<p>It’s a live filter for anything shown on the display, <i>including</i> the camera app. So you can hold up your phone facing the chart and see it adjusted for your personal variant of color blindness, or take a photo and then zoom in and study it.<p>And if anyone gives you flak about it, explain what’s up. It’ll seem like black magic to them, and then maybe they’ll fix their palettes someday :)

I have worked as a software engineer for 10+ years in both companies big and small. I&#x27;ve gotten very used to and comfortable with my color deficiencies. I call it out right away when anything comes up and treat it almost comically. When some graph&#x2F;diagram&#x2F;chart comes up in a meeting and there&#x27;s a bunch of colors I can&#x27;t tell, I make sure to call it out; and pretty much take every opportunity that arises to remind my team mates that I&#x27;m not good at telling colors. No one feels bothered or anything, they tell me which is which, might use easier-to-tell colors next time, and we all have a laugh about it.<p>There are indeed board games where colors matter a lot and they use colors I can&#x27;t tell. Factory Fun is an example. I bought my own copy so that I could use a marker and put a letter &quot;R&quot; next to the red pipes on every tile so I can tell it from the green ones.

You should mention it. Suggest alternate color schemes - at least at work. There are probably other color blind people that struggle and say nothing. For boardgames and to generally help you in day to day life - perhaps consider a pair of these &gt; <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;enchroma.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;enchroma.com</a><p>Even a pair of the sunglasses could make a nice walk on a sunny day a much more enjoyable experience and everyone deserves that.

Are colorblind-friendly palettes widely known among visual designers?<p>Can these palettes (and patterns) be included as a choice in end-user and programmatic graphing apps?

Seems like a use case for smart glasses?