Porto, Portugal

Colour blindness, a vision deficiency, involves the inability to perceive differences between some of the colours that others can distinguish. An estimated 10% of human beings suffer from some degree of colour blindness, an inherited deficiency with no cure.

Miguel Neiva, a Portuguese designer and educator, has conceived and developed a complete coding system for the colourblind, ColorAdd®. Read the full story of this important undertaking (a significant contribution to the world’s visual vocabulary) in an Icograda news story here; visit the project’s official website here. Congratulations, Miguel!

Images above: Codes used on coloured pencils (e.g. at school); b/w icons representing the full colour spectrum; colour coding of hospital bracelets made more universally discernible—the potential range of effective ColorAdd® applications is practically limitless…