R. Leib's Blog: Dream State - Posts Tagged "green"

I have red-green colorblindness. I do not see everything in black and white. I see colors. (No one knows if people see the same thing, when they see a color. As a matter of fact, this may be why people have different preferences for colors; they look different to them.) Being colorblind means that I have difficulty distinguishing between secondary and tertiary colors, where the difference is the amount of red or green in them. For example, brown and green and green and yellow are difficult distinctions for me to make. (This makes caring for plants a particular challenge for me.) Over the years, I have developed a pretty good guessing system based on the hues of colors. (When TVs were black and white, I had an advantage in that I could guess the colors better than people who were not colorblind.) When I paint in color, I do so on the computer. Since digital colors are expressed in three ranges from 0 to 255 for red, green, and blue, I can identify colors based on their numerical representation.