Color Oracle

Color Oracle

Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux. It allows users to visualize how people with color vision deficiencies see images and interfaces. The app simulates different types of color blindness and allows adjusting severity.
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Color Oracle: Free Color Blindness Simulator

Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux. It allows users to visualize how people with color vision deficiencies see images and interfaces. The app simulates different types of color blindness and allows adjusting severity.

What is Color Oracle?

Color Oracle is a free, open source application that simulates different types of color vision deficiency on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. It allows designers, developers and anyone else working with color to see their content as it would be perceived with common types of color blindness like protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia.

By showing you in real time how people with color vision issues experience colors and contrasts, Color Oracle helps create more accessible and inclusive visuals. It supports various image and document formats and runs simulations based on personal settings like type and severity of color blindness.

Key features include:

  • Simulations for protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and more
  • Adjustable severity levels
  • Support for common image, video and document formats
  • Cross-platform compatibility
  • Free and open source

Color Oracle aims to raise awareness about color vision deficiencies, which affect around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women globally. By experiencing first-hand how people with color blindness see your designs and content, you can make adjustments to improve accessibility and inclusiveness.

Color Oracle Features

Features

  1. Simulates different types of color blindness including protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia
  2. Allows adjusting severity of color blindness simulation
  3. Works across Windows, Mac, Linux platforms
  4. Free standalone application

Pricing

  • Free
  • Open Source

Pros

Helps designers and developers understand how their creations are perceived by color blind users

Lightweight and easy to use

Open source and free

Cons

Limited to simulating vision, does not offer correction

UI is quite basic

Development seems inactive, last update was in 2015

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