Color Oracle: through the eyes of dichromate

If you believe the "Wikipedia", any kind of dihromii (or color blindness) affecting up to half a billion people. Not too little. Therefore, when working with colors - whether you are a designer or office worker, korpyaschy on a presentation or a table - worth take into account the peculiarities of a particular violation of color vision, especially if a future product is targeted at the general audience. This will help you a simple Color Oracle utility.

The program runs from a service of the menu bar, and its main effect is to correct the color gamut of the screen content according to the characteristics of a particular type dihromii. In the Color Oracle appear: common deuteranopia (Green color blindness), rarer Protanopia (Blindness to red) and very "exotic"acyanopsia (Blindness to colors in the blue-violet portion of the spectrum). By selecting the appropriate program via the menu icon, you will see the familiar eyes dichromate picture with the selected type of color blindness.

However, the picture is static: Color Oracle only creates a screenshot over the "live" image. But this screenshot can be saved (Save Filtered Screen Image menu command) to "hem" to a common set of demonstration files for display to the customer.

Switching modes utility occurs both through its menu, and with the help of hot keys that can be assigned at its discretion through the settings window. This program features and exhausted. Perhaps it something is missing, but in most cases it should be enough. And more recently, Color Oracle has been adapted to the new Retina-display MacBook Pro. So, in view of being free, it is a good tool in zagashnik any modern designer.

→ Download Color Oracle the official page of the application.