Color Blindness Simulator — Free Online Tool

Simulate how your palette looks with different color blindness. Color Blindness Simulator is a free online tool from the ToolsRift Color Tools collection. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing to install, no signup, and your data never leaves your device.

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How to use Color Blindness Simulator

Enter your colors, pick a color-blindness type, and compare the original and simulated swatches to spot pairs that become hard to tell apart.

Frequently asked questions

What types of color blindness are simulated?

Common deficiencies including protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, which affect red, green and blue perception.

Why test for color blindness?

Around 1 in 12 men have some color vision deficiency, so checking ensures your UI colors stay distinguishable for everyone.

How is the simulation calculated?

Your colors are transformed with established color-vision-deficiency matrices that approximate how each type perceives them.

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