The most common is red green color blindness where sufferers mix up all colors which have red or green as part of the whole color.
Color blind friendly color combinations.
Instead the use of a number of default color blind friendly palettes would be much more straightforward.
Since the number of red green colorblind people is much higher than any other form of color blindness it should be your number one priority to address with your design.
Below i discuss a number of color palettes that are suitable for coloring graphical elements in plots.
To help you out here is a list of the color combinations that are known to cause trouble for people with color blindness.
Green brown green red green blue blue purple blue gray light green yellow green black green gray.
Red green green brown green blue blue gray blue purple green gray green black.
Color combinations to avoid for people with color blindness include.
How to pick a colorblind friendly palette for your website.
Blue yellow color blindness is much rarer and affects men and women equally.