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Wellness Wednesday for March 4, 2026

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I just discovered that everything looks better with the color filter in the Windows accessibility features, and I may have very slight sub-clinical deuteranopia, weakness of the green cones. I was just playing around with the feature and realized the desktop wallpaper on my second monitor looked a lot better!

So I took the https://www.colorblindnesstest.org test. Apparently there aren't supposed to be any "hard" guesses on the Ishihara plates (bubble numbers), but four of the plates took me more than five seconds to decipher.

I scored 100% but I have noticed independent of the test that the vision in my left eye is slightly less "warm" toned, presumably it's something to do with the cells that respond to red.

Almost a decade ago I was in the market for a new monitor for my PC. There was a lot of conversation at the time about high refresh rates for monitors for competitive gaming and how pros literally couldn't play with below 120/240hz because things became choppy, or whatever.

I had never had a high refresh rate monitor at that time so I thought I'd try it out and bought a highly rated monitor.

When I got the monitor however, I discovered that the colours were just god-awful and I couldn't understand how anyone could think that it was even remotely acceptable. I googled and found some claims that this had to do with bad default settings on the monitor, so I adjusted those and it helped a little but it didn't really fix the issue.

I talked with a buddy I played a lot with who had the same model and he claimed he didn't have any issues so I thought that perhaps I had gotten a dud. I then went over to him and he showed me the monitor and it was the same washed out shit I had on my monitor, which he seemingly couldn't notice.

I finally concluded that the panel technology (at least at the time) was just dog shit and that a large section of the population is too colourblind to notice even large differences in colour rendition.

Perhaps it's similar to smell, where you assume that people smell mostly the same things as you but apparently there is like 40% of the population that have a very limited sense of smell and who get nothing from any "sophisticated" cooking or things like fine wine, because they literally can't taste the difference.

Was RGB range set to full (0-255) rather than limited (16-235)?

I don't remember what the exact settings were, this was like a decade ago.

Apparently there aren't supposed to be any "hard" guesses on the Ishihara plates (bubble numbers), but four of the plates took me more than five seconds to decipher.

Huh. Several plates took 5+ seconds to decipher, and 3 were totally unreadable to me, but the results said normal vision.

I got stuck on one with extremely faint red/pink and first thought there wasn't a number there. When I finally found it and realised that there could be numbers that faint it wasn't difficult to pick out the number. I then redid the test and got 3 of those and easily picked them out as fast as with the other numbers.

I think the test kind of fools you by priming you with all the high contrast examples so when you get to a very low contrast one you feel like there isn't anything there at all even if you can pick it out and it takes a while for your brain to adjust.

Have you attempted changing the color filter accessibility feature to deuteranopia, and then looking at scenery pictures?

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