Colours & colour blindness

[biggiesablade]

If this is a stupid question be gentle.

Is there a universal shade of colour that stands out to people who are colour blind? Just thinking if the club could put a small patch somewhere on the kit that shows colour blind blades who the blades on the pitch are

 

[SwissBlade]

Feckin el Swizzler, you sure you’ve not been supporting S6 mob without realising it?

No.

 

[Blade56]

No.

No you’re not sure or no you haven’t?

Asking for a friend

 

[SwissBlade]

If this is a stupid question be gentle.

Is there a universal shade of colour that stands out to people who are colour blind? Just thinking if the club could put a small patch somewhere on the kit that shows colour blind blades who the blades on the pitch are

It doesn’t have to be that complicated. The clubs just need to look at the shirts that teams are going to wear for home/ away kits and look at them when teams play each other…

If we’re playing in red/ white shirts at home with black shorts, then a side coming with a dark green/ black/ blue away kit won’t work, especially if they have dark shorts on

A simple solution in the 3 kit world we live in would be to have kits which contrast - a black and a yellow for United would work

 

[biggiesablade]

It doesn’t have to be that complicated. The clubs just need to look at the shirts that teams are going to wear for home/ away kits and look at them when teams play each other…

If we’re playing in red/ white shirts at home with black shorts, then a side coming with a dark green/ black/ blue away kit won’t work, especially if they have dark shorts on

A simple solution in the 3 kit world we live in would be to have kits which contrast - a black and a yellow for United would work

Ahh I see have to say I love a yellow kit

 

[SwissBlade]

Ahh I see have to say I love a yellow kit

But a caveat on that is that often what e17blade struggles to see is not a problem for me and vice versa… so the bigger the contrast from a home kit the better

 

[e17blade]

If we had a bright yellow third kit for example - then we would have enough options for every game I think.

 

[Steelcitysenior]

Funny green that.

 

[Linz]

But a caveat on that is that often what e17blade struggles to see is not a problem for me and vice versa… so the bigger the contrast from a home kit the better

So what you're saying Swiss is "bring back the diamonds" yeah?

 

[SwissBlade]

So what you're saying Swiss is "bring back the diamonds" yeah?

I’ve brought back diamonds once before, never again.

 

[tyke1889]

Just seen this on Twitter, not sure if colour blind people would class themselves as disabled, but might be somewhere to highlight the problems?

Edit, colour blindness is specifically mentioned.

 

[Katzenjammer]

Just seen this on Twitter, not sure if colour blind people would class themselves as disabled, but might be somewhere to highlight the problems?

Edit, colour blindness is specifically mentioned.

I'm colourblind (orange/green).

It doesn't get me a blue badge or any discounts, so it's hardly worth calling it a disability really.

 

[tyke1889]

Bet you have fun watching Ivory Coast v Nederlands

 

[prince albert]

I'm colourblind (orange/green).

It doesn't get me a blue badge or any discounts, so it's hardly worth calling it a disability really.

How do you know it's blue ?

You might already have one and not noticed

 

[mattbianco1]

 

[jt64]

Jesus this Southampton v Man City game looks awful and I'm not even colour blind, at least I can work out that City are the team with the ball

 

[Digs blade]

Had to look very closely. Sure,y Man City could have worn their home shirt

 

[mattbianco1]

Jesus this Southampton v Man City game looks awful and I'm not even colour blind, at least I can work out that City are the team with the ball

Although not the team scoring goals

 

[mattbianco1]

 

[e17blade]

Missed the game last night and just watching MOTD now…

Red and white stripes v green and white stripes!!!

WTF!!!

 

[Aganarama]

Missed the game last night and just watching MOTD now…

Red and white stripes v green and white stripes!!!

WTF!!!

Saw a tweet before the game saying that was no combo of our home and any (!) of their kits that would have worked. Crazy. And that green kit is an abomination anyway!

 

[mattbianco1]

Saw a tweet before the game saying that was no combo of our home and any (!) of their kits that would have worked. Crazy. And that green kit is an abomination anyway!

They played in all white against Burnley.

Red n White stripes does not clash with all white. Especially this current kit - solid red sleeves, mainly red with 2 white stripes

Reyt joke

 

[jt64]

It did occur to me that this thread might get bumped while watching yesterday, which I guess is good for awareness of the issues? I don't get why Man U couldn't wear either their home or third kit, either would have been better I'd have thought

 

[Wards]

The choice of colours was shambolic last night. Watching the highlights back it was worse on TV than it was in person - I didn't actually suffer too much whilst at the match. Some will have really struggled regardless.

 

[e17blade]

One thing that makes colour clashes worse is rapid movement. To anyone who is colour blind it looks even worse during play than just looking at static pictures of the kits.

You could of course argue that none of our players are 'rapid'.... but the point still stands.

 

[crooked bladesman]

I wish it was only colour blindness that was impacting on Hecky!

 

[VLYDONIMIR]

Yesterday at Leyton Orient v Barnsley, the home side wore their
away strip. Barnsley's away strip hasn't arrived since they lost them all
in the bus fire the week ago. Yesterday, taking into account the issues
brought up on this forum, United (not Manchester) could have worn
the yellow strip? Perhaps the club should be notified by people for future
reference?

 

[e17blade]

Yesterday at Leyton Orient v Barnsley, the home side wore their
away strip. Barnsley's away strip hasn't arrived since they lost them all
in the bus fire the week ago. Yesterday, taking into account the issues
brought up on this forum, United (not Manchester) could have worn
the yellow strip? Perhaps the club should be notified by people for future
reference?

The club have been told about this on MANY occasions by MANY people (including me) over a LONG period of time.

The "inclusivity manager" (I may have got the title slightly wrong) also had a meeting with Colour Blind Awareness a couple of years ago.

Nothing ever changes.

 

[sportinguista]

Now, I don't suffer from any colour "blindness' or other colour distinguishing situation but having just watched the lowlights of our game at Arsenal why did we play against a team who wear red with lots of white in a very light grey kit with red socks? When we have an all yellow away kit. Who decides this stuff? Did it affect those members on here who struggle with colour differentiation?

 

[e17blade]

I am colour blind and this wasn’t great for me, but not too bad. Yellow would have been perfect though.

The decision is almost certainly commercial. Was this our first league game wearing this kit? They needed to get it on show.