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Color Oracle

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 12th, 2007

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.

Tags: colorblind

Filed under: Software

Sim Daltonism

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 12th, 2007

Red is red, right? Wrong. There are some people out there (this humble blogger amongst them) who are color blind in one degree or another (I have a slight case of red/green colorblindness). This means you can't assume people see colors in the same way you do, which is very important when you're a designer.

But what can a designer who sees in full color do in order to make sure their websites are legible to all those colorblind surfers out there? That's where Sim Daltonism comes in. This little donationware app simulates what the area around your mouse looks like to a person with a variety of different types of colorblindness.

[via Zeldman]

Tags: color blind, color-blind, ColorBlind

Filed under: Gaming, Software

Frenzic 1.2.1

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Aug 2nd, 2007

Frenzic is a frantic game which has the player match and then move colored game pieces to form pies. Trust me, it is a lot more fun than that sounds, and it is even more fun when you play against someone else.

Sadly, as with any game based on color recognition, there was a small portion of society that couldn't play Frenzic (or at least not very well). That's right, I'm talking about the color blind people of the world, of which I am one. Happily Frenzic 1.2 introduced a new option to help those of us who have trouble distinguishing colors.

The current version of Frenzic is 1.2.1, the most recent update fixed an issue with the demo timing out. Frenzic costs $14.95 (though there is a guru package which includes an lifetime of online play for $24.95).

Tags: colorblind, frenzic, game, iconfactory

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