Sim Daltonism: Color blindness simulator for Mac OS X

Earlier this afternoon I came across a very interesting application. Sim Daltonism simulates eight variants of color blindness, from Tritanopia (complete blue-yellow) to Tritanomaly (partial blue-yellow) to the rare Monochromacy, or complete color blindness. When the application is running, it displays a resizable window that simulates selected variant of color blindness underneath the portion of the screen you're mousing over.

Web and GUI developers can use this information to ensure that their designs are usable by color blind people. Sim Daltonism is free. I could not find specific system requirements, but it's working for me under Mac OS 10.4.2.

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Source: http://www.michelf.com/projects/sim-daltonism/

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Scott Thomas

Interesting! I am currently reading a book on color theory and I'm just now into the section on color blindness. Now I need a simulator for "river-blindness".... Early `80's j-Giles Band song?... Oh nevermind.

September 10 2005 at 12:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darrell

Doesn't work with OS X10.2.6-won't load.

September 09 2005 at 7:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

narco

A few years ago I had to run a proof of an advert that a car dealership was running in a magazine I used to work for. The guy was a total pain in the ass, very picky and wanted a lot of changes. By the time I brought him his final proof, he kept asking me why this was there, and what's the point of this, etc. Then he started asking me what color things were. I thought he wanted specifics so I started yelling out Pantones and what not, but I just got frustrated and told him "who the hell cares what color it is?" That's when he told me he was color blind, I felt so dumb. Fishes, narco.

September 09 2005 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

timothy broyles

Wow, talk about not working. It keeps opening up window after window after window inside each other. I'm running 10.4.2 also, but it doesn't like me

September 09 2005 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kurt

I got an error on my PowerMac G3 400mhz that said: Link (dyld) error: Incompatible cpu-subtype Looks like it won't run on G3s

September 09 2005 at 5:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

consumer_q

You "came across..."? Come on, you found it through an RSS feed off of Versiontracker. admit it! Neat programme. Now I can see the world through my son's eyes.

September 09 2005 at 5:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply