🌈 Color Blind LUTs

Lookup tables (LUTs) for Fiji/ImageJ unambiguous to color blind humans.

Background

Masataka Okabe and Kei Ito first proposed this color set in their meticulous work describing how to make color blind friendly figures [1]. Using the LUT Panel plugin developed by Patrick Pirrotte and Jerome Mutterer [2], I created the corresponding LUT files for Okabe & Ito’s color set to use on confocal stacks in ImageJ.

References:

1. Okabe M, Ito K. How to make figures and presentations that are friendly to color blind people. In: Jfly: data repository for Drosophila researchers [Internet]. 20 Nov 2002 [cited 6 Apr 2015]. Available: https://jfly.uni-koeln.de/html/color_blind/ (or PDF)
2. Pirrotte P, Mutterer J. LUT Panel. In: ImageJ plugins website [Internet]. 15 Mar 2003 [cited 6 Apr 2015]. Available: https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/plugins/lut-panel.html

Color set

Name	HEX	RGB	CMYK
Black	000000	0,0,0	0,0,0,100
Blue	0072b2	0,114,178	100,50,0,0
Sky Blue	56b4e9	86,180,233	80,0,0,0
Bluish Green	009966	0,153,102	97,0,75,0
Yellow	f0e442	240,228,66	10,5,90,0
Orange	e69f03	230,159,0	0,50,100,0
Vermilion	d55e00	213,94,0	0,80,100,0
Reddish Purple	cc79a7	204,121,167	10,70,0,0

Install

ColorBlindLUTs is available in the list of Fiji update sites. To install simply:

1. Open Fiji and go to Help > Update... > Manage update sites
2. Scroll down and mark the checkbox for ColorBlindLUTs
3. Click Close and then Apply changes to install
4. Restart Fiji

The LUTs will appear in the LUT Menu as:

CB_Blue
CB_BluishGreen
CB_Orange
CB_ReddishPurple
CB_SkyBlue
CB_Vermilion
CB_Yellow

Cite

Vellutini BC (2015). Color blind friendly lookup tables for Fiji/ImageJ. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7596750