About this color blindness test
This free online color blindness test uses Ishihara-style dot plates — the hidden-number design used in eye clinics for over a century. Each plate is generated fresh in your browser: a digit is drawn in dots that differ from the background only in hue, along a red-green or blue-yellow confusion line, while dot size and brightness are randomized so you can't cheat by shape or shading. If your color vision separates those hues, the number pops out; if it doesn't, you see a uniform field.
How these plates are generated. Every plate is drawn procedurally in JavaScript the moment the test loads — there are no stored, scanned, or scraped Ishihara images anywhere on this site. The dots are packed live, the hidden figure is separated from the background only along a color-confusion axis, and the lightness of every dot is randomized within a shared band on each run. Because of that, no two runs are identical: a plate can't be memorized, screenshotted, or traced by brightness — only genuine hue discrimination reveals the figure. Most free online color tests reuse the same fixed public-domain plate images; this one does not, which is what makes it a fresh screen every time rather than a picture quiz.
You'll see 8 plates per eye — five red-green, two blue-yellow (tritan), and one lightness-only control that everyone can read. Scoring is a plain count of how many you read correctly on each axis, not a black-box "AI" verdict or invented probability. The result is an honest screen: it can flag a likely red-green or tritan deficiency and give a coarse severity band, but a screen cannot separate protanopia from deuteranopia, and it is never a diagnosis.
Frequently asked questions
How accurate is an online color blindness test?
It's a useful screen, not a diagnosis. Uncalibrated screens shift results between devices, but a plate test built from real confusion-axis colors can reliably flag a likely deficiency. Confirm anything meaningful with an eye-care professional.
Can this test tell if I'm protan or deutan?
No — it detects the shared red-green confusion pattern, but separating protan from deutan needs a clinician's anomaloscope or diagnostic plates.
Does this test show how severe my color blindness is?
Yes — it gives an honest severity read (none, borderline, mild, moderate, or strong) from how many red-green plates you missed, and shows the exact count it's based on. On five plates that band is coarse: a single plate can shift it, and an uncalibrated screen can too. For a finer read, the saturation and red-green match tests grade further — and a clinician's anomaloscope grades it properly.
Why test each eye separately?
Inherited color blindness is the same in both eyes, but a one-eye difference can point to an acquired change worth examining — and per-eye testing improves reliability.
Is this test free?
Yes — free, no account, and it runs entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded or stored.