X-Rite, the color tech company that now operates Pantone, shared a grim statistic: 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some kind of color vision deficiency. If you're curious where your own color vision falls in that statistic, give its new online color tester a try. After arranging four strips of tiles in hue order, you'll receive an exact numerical score, the lower the better, and a percentile comparing your results to the rest of the field. The online test is an adaptation of X-Rite's FM 100 Hue test, a physical version of the test with actual hue tiles, often used as part of a recruiting process. 

A design student in New Brunswick, NJ has just launched an ambitious Kickstarter campaign with the goal of creating a new shade of black. If the project reaches its funding goal, the new shade will actually be the first crowd-sourced color. The designer, Nick Black, has a practical future in mind for the project: he'll develop the shade with Pantone, so the color will have its own hex code, RGB, and CMYK values to make sure it can actually be used for design projects. The campaign is running until March 31, and rewards for backers include iPhone wallpapers, swatches, a gallon of the new black paint, and some custom posters.