COLOR BLIND TESTHow Well Can You See Color?

Remember The Dress?

If you were one of hundreds of people who thought it was gold and white and not black and blue, you might be colorblind.

While The Dress was a sneak-attack color blindness test, ours is here for your benefit. It’s free, simple, and can give you the information necessary to set an appointment with your local optometrist.

Before we begin, let’s cover some quick facts on color blindness:

• Color blindness primarily affects males (the most common types of color blindness are associated with the X chromosome and males only have one).

• Red/green color blindness is the most common, blue/yellow is second.

• There are multiple subsets of each type of color blindness, dependent on which facets of the eye aren’t functioning properly.

• If you’re seeing gold and white where you shouldn’t, it’s time to investigate further.

HERE’S HOW THE COLOR BLIND TEST WORKS

1. Make sure that you are in a neutral environment (clean, white light and no filtered eyewear)

2. Look at the downloaded images (either printed or on your screen) and pick out the numbers you see in the circles.

3. Write down your results as you go along.

Compare what you’ve written down to the legend (located at the bottom of the Color Blind Test) and if you were unable to see or misidentified a number, make an appointment with your local optometrist to get a professional exam.

Left to Right, Top row: 3, 5, 6. Middle row: 29, 45,74. Bottom row: 12, 42, squiggled line.

Bard Optical

Bard Optical is your authority on eye care across Central Illinois. With a team of highly skilled optometrists, we’re able to help with all kinds of vision and eye issues. Bard Optical is dedicated to helping patients preserve and improve the health of their eyes. We see patients from ages 2-102, truly offering ‘Vision for Life.’

Selling glasses and contact lenses is secondary to developing a lifelong relationship with our patients as their eye doctors. Whether it is a child’s first eye health examination or a senior citizen who is coming back to us following cataract surgery, all of our patients are given individual attention to ensure we are able to educate them and assist them in managing the health of their eyes.

Bard Optical’s patients are our friends and neighbors. For that reason, we are committed to providing ALL patients with the same level of care they have come to expect from their family doctors.

To schedule your professional eye exam, visit bardoptical.com.