A generous pile of red and green chili peppers

From A Colourblind Designer To The World: Please Stop Using Red And Green Together

Andrew Wilshere, a red-green colorblind, shares the most common problems he encounters when using websites and apps.

Illustration: Mark Stebnicki

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Color Oracle

About 10% of the population - mostly males - has a form of colorblindness.
Color Oracle is a free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. It shows in real time what people with common color vision impairments see.

Simulation of colorblindness

Stark

One of the most recommended Figma plug-in that stimulates various types of colorblindness. Stark can also be use to check color-contrast ratios of your designs.

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Able

Able is one of the most recommended plug-in for Figma that helps you to measure color-contrast ratio and simulate color blindness.