Defining a colour chart and direction towards outcome

From the research I have done on colour blindness affecting a patients ability to organise their wardrobe and dress themselves in non-clashing colours, I have decided to design and make a colour gridded wardrobe especially structured and labelled to allow the colourblind to be able to dress in non clashing colours.

I want to base the structure of the wardrobe around the colours of visual difficulty, using the colour wheel as a structural guide. I want the wardrobe to resemble a grid-like structure in context with the colour wheel.

I will design a user guide that will sit inside the wardrobe along with a labelling system and a key coded without the use of colour.



The next step of my development involves me defining the exact colour differences between a regular sighted person and a colour deficient person.

The different types of colour blindness are:

Monochromats
Monochromats I: people with no functioning cones; people with this deficiency have problems with daylight, because it is too bright for them; they also lack visual acuity
Monochromats II: people with only one variety of the cones functioning in addition to the rods; both types of monochromats see colors only as variations in intensity, that, is analog to black-and-white or unicolored images
Dichromats: People with only one malfunctioning cone system
Protanopia: malfunctioning in the red cone system; typically only two (yellow, blue) or three colors (yellow, blue, purple) can be distinguished - yellow comprises red, orange, yellow, and green, blue coincides with blue and purple
Deuteranopia: malfunctioning in the green cone system; green cannot be distinguished from certain combinations of red and blue; this is the most common type of color deficiency
Tritanopia: malfunctioning of the blue cone system; longer wavelengths appear as red and the shorter ones as bluish-green; this color deficiency is very rare