Traditionally, Christmas is all about Green Christmas trees decorated with different color ornaments, red, gold, silver and blue. So how do color blind people see all these? The most common type of color blindness that affects people relates to green and red color. I am giving you a brief explanation below for the color blindness types and further down some pictures as seen by color blind people.
How People with Colour Vision Deficiency See Christmas Cities light up in red and green every December as the streets come to life with Christmas festivities. Huge, green Christmas trees tower over busy shoppers, bedecked in brightly coloured baubles, tinsel, and fairy lights. To most people, Christmas is a colourful affair.
Who knows, you might be color-blind! So now that you are an expert in color blindness, and are ready to take on the keen intellect of your relatives at this year's Christmas feast, take a look at the image below to see what Christmas might look like for those with red. Are you red-green colorblind? Take the test in the following gallery. Red and green have long been the traditional colors of Christmas, thanks in large part, to holly, poinsettias and fir trees.
How do individuals with red-green colorblindness perceive Christmas lights and the typical red and green color scheme? Individuals with red-green colorblindness, also known as red-green color vision deficiency, perceive Christmas lights and the typical red and green color scheme differently than people with normal color vision. How to describe a Christmas tree to someone who is visually impaired (inclusive of blind/low vision). What would Christmas be like without red and green? No candy canes, Christmas trees, or red-vested Santa? Traditionally, Christmas is all about green Christmas trees decorated with different coloured ornaments, red, gold, silver and blue,colourful Christmas gift wrapping and cards.
Sadly for a person with a colour vision deficit, it all appears as dull shades of []. Visually impaired and legally blind endure not just physical pain but mental as well, struggling with day-to-day activities. But this year's Christmas is getting a lot more creative as we embark on finding new ways to celebrate and make this year's Christmas memories.
How do you choose the correct colour Christmas tree when colour blind? For those who love Christmas as much as I do, choosing the correct tree can be like the wand scene from Harry Potter. You search amongst a wide section of trees that you don't know much about in the hopes of finding just the right tree. Blue is probably best, it really catches our eyes when red and green don't stand out, yellow is a little less fancy/christmas/wintery of a color imo but we can see it well.
I have a blue tree with blue lights (various ornaments of all colors) and find it very beautiful, although I can still see green and red fairly well, and it wasn't picked for my color deficiency at all.