Hey, I thought I'd share this little program I knocked up.

I have a slight colorblind condition, effecting Green/Brown and Purple/Blue. As I'm sometimes required to do a bit of graphic design work, people rely on me to make sure that their logos are blue and not purple, or green and not brown. For the 12% of people that have similar color deficiencies, Colorblind Assistant is a great tool for discerning which colors are the correct ones to use.

The software reads from the pixel at mouse point and identifies the closest named color. Color names won't always be spot on (it's impossible to have names for all 16 million colors), but the color can be further analysed via RGB (Red, Green and Blue) values, Brightness and Saturation.

So far tests are solid for Windows 7, if anyone encounters problems with other OS or lower-end hardware, please report.

The installer is included, however the software is quick to uninstall and leaves no perminant files or registry values.


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Thank you! I would be one of those 12% :P

Really nice program, incredibly well executed.
You should add a checkbox to make the program always in front.

Awesome. I'm one of those 12% too. Especially green gives me problems.

This is a definate keeper, thanks

Great idea Looki. Definitely a useful feature I'll implement asap.

It wont work for me. The program runs fine but its stuck on red, 255,0,0

Unless i'm missing something on how to use it?

I'm on vista, service pack 2.

Does the program have permission to write files to the install path? The problem may be that it can't save the zoomed screen-grab. Perhaps try run as administrator?

I have Vista on an older machine, I'll test it tomorrow and let you know.

yes, you were right. I right clicked the program and selected run as administrator and it's working, thanks.

Very interesting and welcome idea! Usually I have to take a screenshot and paste it into a graphics program to tell what colour things are (as I can 'see' colours rather better in hex than I can in real life) - I'm going to try this out

It's amazing how many users have Anamolous colour vision, turns out this is a great program after all.