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> That is a worthwhile endeavor, and the people writing them mean well, but I suspect very few of them are color-blind because the advice is often poor and sometimes wrong. The most common variety of color blindness is called red-green color blindness, or deuteranopia, and it affects about 6% of human males.

This is frustrating. He's trying to correct misconceptions and then he immediately gets the word wrong. What he's describing is 'deuteranomaly'. The term 'deuteranopia' applies to the more severe form of colourblindness shown in his diagram (a); it's a form of true dichromacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Classification




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