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Originally Posted by will...

Basically what I really want to know is how much with the fact that I am colourblind affect my chances in the industry and employment

It's not something I like to make a big deal of, but I have a problem with color blindness (although anyone who has seen my work may claim that's obvious!) Occasionally I like to ask someone to check over a proof just to make sure that I'm not creating some hideous mess, but I've found generally that because everything is slightly 'off' for color blind people, nasty clashes for the regular-sighted are still nasty clashes for us.

I probably check CMYK/RGB values a little more than other people simply to make sure that my blues aren't straying into the purple zone or similar situations - you become quite adept at being able to fix a color by using numbers and you can sometimes fall back on color theory for reassurance - but that's all it is, I still do 99% of color selection by eye-judgement. I've very rarely found any major problems. The only issue I can remember was when a friendly printer got in touch with me to query the color I'd used on an advert for a bus company because it didn't seem to match their livery - and he was kind enough to adjust it at his end. Apart from that I've never found it to be an issue.

Unless you have a really severe deficiency, I'd hazard a guess that if you don't deliberately bring it up, no one will ever notice. I wouldn't even mention it in interviews.