I wrote earlier about my discovering my color blindness, and a lot of people were asking me "so, what do you see!!". This post is to make you understand what exactly I see. Well, after 26 years I discovered that I see the world in a different way than others, and I am a successful web designer, my color schemes are always bright and nice (what people say to me)

I was asking myself, do the green fields which i love look red to normal people?! do normal people see orange like my blue?! when you are born your parents teach you colors, they point to that box and tell you "this is green" they point to this red circle and say "this is red". To them it is green box and red circle but they don't know how you see it! you might see that red circle as what they see blue! so you will point to every blue color you see and say RED (they told you it is red), which they actually see as red! so they won't tell you, you are wrong!

This is of course wrong , I see red as you see it and same with green, but, I see it with different shades. After browsing the internet searching to understand more about color blindness and different types of it, I found these images which help you to better understand what I see.
The images above are a tool to make normal people able to imagine how color blind people see what they see.
In the first image, normal people see a number.  But if they look at the 2nd and 3rd images they will see what color blind people see in the first image. The difference between the 2nd and 3rd is just different types of color blindness.

In the upper 3 images I can't see a difference in them, they look the same to me, but to you as normal person you'll see a number in the first one.


In this one you (as normal person) will see every number in a box of color which is different to the one next to it. I can't see these boxes, I just see numbers from 0 to 5 as one block with gradient from lime green to yellow but no boxes! same happen from 10 to 15 just a gradient.

You can now understand more about what I see!
hmm, you can start donations now! :)

It is really important to make color tests to your kids!
Color test 1
Color test 2

PS: If you are in Egypt, contact me: we are hiring .Net developers (color blind is ok)