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The Today Show of Sunday Mar 24, 2019 featured an item about color blind illustrator Loren Long.

We proudly share with you that We are Colorblind is one of the projects to receive a grant issued by the Design Forward Fund by InVision. For the first recipients of the grant InVision has chosen to support four “organizations that champion inclusive design”

This years Pantone Color of the Year is Living Coral: “an animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge“

Have you ever wondered how colorblind people see the world? Now you can experience it yourself, in VR.

In order to see the red of a sunset or the green of spring leaves, developing human eyes need to get the right hormone at the right time. That’s the finding of a team of scientists who studied how color vision develops using hundreds of human retinas grown in the lab.

Fences and hurdles in British racing are set for a major makeover after it was discovered horses see the obstacles differently to humans.

Hundreds of firearms officers may have to lay down their weapons because of new rules designed to detect those who have problems with their colour vision.

Kodable now features a Colorblind Mode that can be enabled or disabled at any time by their 15 million users.

An estimated 3 million Japanese—5% of men and 2% of women—have some form of colorblindness or shikikaku ijo. Japan’s Ministry of Environment announced on Wednesday (July 18) its plans introduce new colors to its heat map index next year, specifically for the purpose of making sure these people are getting the right information. Read the full article at Quartz

Scientists at a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory have developed a color scale that is mathematically optimized to be accurate for both color blind people and those with normal vision.