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Color Oracle

Today is rapidly turning into Color Blindness awareness day here at TUAW. Earlier I told you about Sim Daltonism, which creates a little panel in which you can simulate how something would look viewed by various types of color blindness, and now we have Color Oracle.

Pixel pointed it out to me in the comments, and so I took a gander at it. Unlike Sim Daltonism, Color Oracle simulates the effect of color blindness on your whole screen. Simply click on the menubar item (or use a hot key) and all the colors on your screen are shifted. Click any where and they are back to normal. Pretty neat little application, and the icon (seen to the right) is very cool indeed (it brings back memories of not being able to tell what number was supposed to be in those dots).

Color Oracle is free, and requires OS X 10.3.9 or higher.

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Today is rapidly turning into Color Blindness awareness day here at TUAW. Earlier I told you about Sim Daltonism, which creates a little...
 

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Moose

Having recently developed a number of web solutions for seniors and the visually impaired, I can definitely recommend Color Oracle. It is a nice, unobtrusive addition to my design process...

October 15 2007 at 4:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
goodie

This is sweet. When I put the settings on it looks exactly the same to me. I just gonna leave it on to mess with onlookers.
Thanks alot

October 12 2007 at 4:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
colorblind

please bring this to the iphone! I have plenty of color blind friends to test it with!

October 12 2007 at 4:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
fraggle

All Fraggle's are colour blind.. But the can spell proper english. ;)

October 12 2007 at 3:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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