All sorts of stuff here, and it’s now open access:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cxo.2004.87.issue-4-5/issuetoc

See especially the paper on colour vision as a handicap.

The handicap of abnormal colour vision.
Cole BL.
Source

The abstract, for a taster:

Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia.
Abstract

All people with abnormal colour vision, except for a few mildly affected deuteranomals, report that they experience problems with colour in everyday life and at work. Contemporary society presents them with increasing problems because colour is now so widely used in printed materials and in computer displays. Equal opportunity law gives them protection against unfair discrimination in employment, so a decision to exclude a person from employment on the grounds of abnormal colour vision must now be well supported by good evidence and sound argument. This paper reviews the investigations that have contributed to understanding the nature and consequences of the problems they have. All those with abnormal colour vision are at a disadvantage with comparative colour tasks that involve precise matching of colours or discrimination of fine colour differences either because of their loss of colour discrimination or anomalous perception of metamers. The majority have problems when colour is used to code information, in man-made colour codes and in naturally occurring colour codes that signal ripeness of fruit, freshness of meat or illness. They can be denied the benefit of colour to mark out objects and organise complex visual displays. They may be unreliable when a colour name is used as an identifier. They are slower and less successful in search when colour is an attribute of the target object or is used to organise the visual display. Because those with the more severe forms of abnormal colour vision perceive a very limited gamut of colours, they are at a disadvantage in the pursuit and appreciation of those forms of art that use colour.

buffy said:

The handicap of abnormal colour vision.
Cole BL.
Source

The abstract, for a taster:

Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia.
Abstract

All people with abnormal colour vision, except for a few mildly affected deuteranomals, report that they experience problems with colour in everyday life and at work. Contemporary society presents them with increasing problems because colour is now so widely used in printed materials and in computer displays. Equal opportunity law gives them protection against unfair discrimination in employment, so a decision to exclude a person from employment on the grounds of abnormal colour vision must now be well supported by good evidence and sound argument. This paper reviews the investigations that have contributed to understanding the nature and consequences of the problems they have. All those with abnormal colour vision are at a disadvantage with comparative colour tasks that involve precise matching of colours or discrimination of fine colour differences either because of their loss of colour discrimination or anomalous perception of metamers. The majority have problems when colour is used to code information, in man-made colour codes and in naturally occurring colour codes that signal ripeness of fruit, freshness of meat or illness. They can be denied the benefit of colour to mark out objects and organise complex visual displays. They may be unreliable when a colour name is used as an identifier. They are slower and less successful in search when colour is an attribute of the target object or is used to organise the visual display. Because those with the more severe forms of abnormal colour vision perceive a very limited gamut of colours, they are at a disadvantage in the pursuit and appreciation of those forms of art that use colour.

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YES, YES, YES

Michael V said:

buffy said:

The handicap of abnormal colour vision.
Cole BL.
Source

The abstract, for a taster:

Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia.
Abstract

All people with abnormal colour vision, except for a few mildly affected deuteranomals, report that they experience problems with colour in everyday life and at work. Contemporary society presents them with increasing problems because colour is now so widely used in printed materials and in computer displays. Equal opportunity law gives them protection against unfair discrimination in employment, so a decision to exclude a person from employment on the grounds of abnormal colour vision must now be well supported by good evidence and sound argument. This paper reviews the investigations that have contributed to understanding the nature and consequences of the problems they have. All those with abnormal colour vision are at a disadvantage with comparative colour tasks that involve precise matching of colours or discrimination of fine colour differences either because of their loss of colour discrimination or anomalous perception of metamers. The majority have problems when colour is used to code information, in man-made colour codes and in naturally occurring colour codes that signal ripeness of fruit, freshness of meat or illness. They can be denied the benefit of colour to mark out objects and organise complex visual displays. They may be unreliable when a colour name is used as an identifier. They are slower and less successful in search when colour is an attribute of the target object or is used to organise the visual display. Because those with the more severe forms of abnormal colour vision perceive a very limited gamut of colours, they are at a disadvantage in the pursuit and appreciation of those forms of art that use colour.

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YES, YES, YES

I have never successfully performed a titration that uses phenolphthalein as an indicator.

Because those with the more severe forms of abnormal colour vision perceive a very limited gamut of colours, they are at a disadvantage in the pursuit and appreciation of those forms of art that use colour.
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I decided to test that assertion

and googled it

The paintings of Ferdinand Léger (1881-1955) characterized by bold (often drab) colours in geometric forms, was red-green colourblind and would ask his wife for the names of some colours when preparing his palette. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is also suggested to have suffered exclusively using only three fundamental colors of red, yellow and blue. John Constable’s (1776-1837) colouring of his landscapes which are primarily yellow and brown have abeen linked to blue-green colour-blindness.

Charles Meryon (1821-1868) upon discovering he was colourblind gave up with colours and made his fame through etching.

Clifton Ernest Pugh (1924–1990) was an Australian artist who suffered from protanope describing an inability to detect of red, an anomaly shared by his brother and nephew, while fellow Australian artist Lloyd Rees (1895-1988) was unable to properly distinguish blue and yellow leading to the famous style of colour seen in his landscape paintings.

A further celebrated artist Eugène Carrière is often described as having total colourblindness, his palette generally consisting of only grays, blues and browns

Albert Uderzo, the creator of Asterix and Obelix, as a boy would marked his pens to differentiate colours though stopped colouring a long time ago. Frank Dunne had to rely on his sons to help him distinguish red and green while Alex Toth (1928-2006) (Hanna-Barbera), Tim Sale (1956-) (Batman and Heroes) and John Byrne (1950-) (Marvel comics) are all world renowned artists.

Constable and Picasso are thought to have been colour blind and yet were very successful.
http://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/living-with-colour-vision-deficiency/art/

On the positive side, camoflage does not camoflage anything for me. Army jobs aplenty…

Thanks for posting the exceptions that prove the rule, wookie.

:)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2009.00384.x/abstract

Clifton Pugh was colour blind.

buffy said:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2009.00384.x/abstract

Clifton Pugh was colour blind.

ever heard of Dalton?

And another one. Nice colour pictures in this one if you download the PDF

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2002.tb03086.x/abstract

And this paper is the one I keep in the consulting room to show people. If you download the whole paper (html and PDF available), there are photos showing how ‘normals’ see things and how colour deficient people see them. Stuff like not being able to see orange golf balls on green grass, red fruit on green trees, not being able to tell when the steak is cooked, when fruit are ripe, which colour electrical wires you are dealing with. My assessment of the photos is that protan and deutan defective vision means you live in a rather dull sort of world, kind of like a dull day. At least that is how the photos of car parks and roads make it look.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00135.x/abstract

‘I’m blind as a bat in my left eye’: Johnny Depp reveals the real reason behind his famous tinted glasses

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2344864/Johnny-Depp-reveals-real-reason-famous-tinted-glasses.html

buffy said:

And this paper is the one I keep in the consulting room to show people. If you download the whole paper (html and PDF available), there are photos showing how ‘normals’ see things and how colour deficient people see them. Stuff like not being able to see orange golf balls on green grass, red fruit on green trees, not being able to tell when the steak is cooked, when fruit are ripe, which colour electrical wires you are dealing with. My assessment of the photos is that protan and deutan defective vision means you live in a rather dull sort of world, kind of like a dull day. At least that is how the photos of car parks and roads make it look.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00135.x/abstract

That was interesting thanks Buffy.

I’ve passed the inheritance chart on to my son who is colour blind.

Told him it was his mother, another reason for him to hate her.