Information design and advertising development for colour-blindness

Find this book in the library. It is very useful for this thesis proposal. This book provides information about the several types of colour vision deficiency and how they are passed from generation to generation. And also describes the difficulties that color-blindness has experienced in everyday life. Plus the problems that they will be encountered at work or at school.

Notes:

Colour-blindness is an illness that the patients have inability to distinguish particular colours. This is a very common illness which two to eight percent of the male population and less than 1 percent of the female population (D. A. McIntyre). There are many types of colour-blindness. However, the most common are red-green hereditary photoreceptor disorders. Colour-blind patients are hardly recognized but this illness can give them many troubles in the regular everyday life (Dr Alex Wade). For example, they often get confused with the red and green apples, they may also confused by the traffic light colors; the red traffic lights will see as a yellowish orange; the green traffic lights will see as white.

Work cited:

D. A. McIntyre, “ Colour blindness: causes and effects”. Dalton Publishing, 2002. New York