Colour vision deficiency friendly palettes

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Introduction

The following colour schemes are taken from the document, "Colorblind Safe Color Schemes", produced by Alexandra Phillips at the NCEAS Science Communication Resource Corner, with the exception of the HarryHelsing Palette which was posted in on Reddit: thoughts on this five colour palette for a video game?. I created a JSON dataset for these colour schemes, which is used to generate the tables below.

Colour vision deficiency simulation is provided using the Accurate SVG filters for color blindness simulation by Nicolas Burrus.

Want to create your own colour vision deficiency friendly palette?

You can use the dropdown below to create your own palette. Adobe has built a tool for creating colour vision deficiency friendly palettes that may help you. If you make one that you would like to add to the standard selection below, let me know.

Creating your own Colour Palette (Beta)

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