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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
fraggle said 3:41PM on 10-12-2007
All Fraggle's are colour blind.. But the can spell proper english. ;)
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mentalsticks said 4:05PM on 10-12-2007
@1: Liar.
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colorblind said 4:15PM on 10-12-2007
please bring this to the iphone! I have plenty of color blind friends to test it with!
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goodie said 4:42PM on 10-12-2007
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
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Moose said 4:02AM on 10-15-2007
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...
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