Jacket advice for colorblind person

[Silmakhor]

You will do what you will do, but if I may respectfully suggest that buying more tartan than you have already will only make your colour choice problems worse. Many of us in Scotland, who can clearly see colours, stick with just one tartan and might possibly have a brace of kilts, one say in modern colours and one say, in ancient colours. We then find the colours of jackets, hose, ties etc., that we think march, ------I repeat, march------ happily together and that is that. For someone in your position I would have thought that that might be helpful. Besides , its less expensive that way!

Hrrrmm.

I do appreciate the advice!

I also want to clear up some misconceptions that some folks may have. Colorblindness is usually quite subtle, and is not at all what people imagine when they first hear the phrase. I am *protanomalous,* which means that I have fewer "red" receptors than most people. I can *still* see red just fine IF it is a primary red and not mixed with blue or green in a blend. So the Lion in the royal standard is quite clearly red to me. It's not a "bright" color though in the way in might be to others. Conversely greens are often brighter. Again, primary greens are easy to see.

The real trick is with pastel and blended and secondary/tertiary colors. Pink often looks gray (because red is faint for me) and lime green is essentially the same for me as yellow. Purples usually look more bluish for me. If I have a real need to know what other people see, I sometimes pull a photograph into a graphics application and get the computer to give me a numerical breakdown of the colors.

Why am I going into this? To clear up any notion that colorblind people don't appreciate tartans in different colors. I see a broad range of shades that make various tartans attractive and interesting in their own right. Otherwise I'd stick to something completely gray