COLOR BLIND GLASSES
Colorlite has been providing prescription color blind glasses since 1998. Colorlite color blind glasses are personalized to the colors you see along with your vision prescription. Most of our color blind glasses are available in most frame styles.
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How to get a Colorlite color blind glasses
Adapting to your color blind glasses
When first put on, the lenses may make the environment appear to have a strong reddish (or other color) tint to it. For example, white would look red as opposed to truly white.
Naturally, the eyes adjust to this color imbalance after wearing the lenses for 90 -120 seconds. White is then seen as white again, and color constancy is rebalanced.
This is known as chromatic adaptation and is an important part of the color blindness correction process. This video demonstrates the process by which chromatic adaptation takes place and knowing when it is complete.
How do colorblind people see?
Click and slide the blue slider to compare how color blind (protanope) people see!
Color Vision Deficiency
Sight is our most important sense. 90% of all information is received by sight, 5% by hearing, 2% by touch, 2% by taste and 1% by smell.
A normal human eye sees three colors: red, green and blue. All other colors are the result of a mixture of varying amounts of red, green, and blue. When a person has Color Vision Deficiency, one or more of the three primary colors is not detected correctly.
The lack of information received due to color blindness slows down, or prevents, comprehension. The lack of comprehension creates a slower reaction time to the information and generally lowers a person's quality of life.
8% of men and .5% of women have Color Vision Deficiency (CVD), also known as color blindness. There are approximately 32.6 million CVD men in the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
Children with Color Vision Deficiency often struggle at school. They have trouble learning their colors, completing color-by-number assignments, understanding color coded graphs and maps, etc. In addition, they’re often teased by classmates for having trouble with these simple assignments.
Color Vision Enhancement
Colorlite manufactures lenses with a special coating designed to enhance a person's color vision. Our color blind glasses will work with each type of red-green color vision deficiency, including the most severe types of Protanopy (total lack of red cones) and Deuteranopy (total lack of green cones).
Colorlite color blind glasses will enhance a patient's color vision. The patient will see more colors and hues which were previously unrecognizable.