The Outfit I Can't See
Colorblindness isn't about seeing in black and white. It's about confidence you never quite have.
I'm colorblind. Red-green, the common kind.
This means I don't see the world in black and white, which is what most people assume colorblindness means. I see colors. I just can't always tell them apart. Certain shades of red look brown. Certain greens look gray. Pink can look white. Purple can look blue.
For most of life, this is manageable. It comes up occasionally—someone points out that the leaves have changed color and I realize I've been looking at the same trees for weeks without noticing. A friend comments on a sunset and I wonder what I'm missing.
But there's one place where colorblindness creates daily friction: getting dressed.
My daughter, Chloe, has been my style consultant since she was old enough to have opinions. Which is to say, since she was about three.
"Daddy, those don't match."
She's saved me from myself more times than I can count. But she can't always be there. And increasingly, I've found myself standing in front of a closet full of clothes, unsure whether what I'm about to wear will make me look professional or ridiculous.
The problem isn't that I have bad taste. The problem is that I genuinely cannot see what I'm putting together.
Style Wizard started as a personal project. I photographed my entire closet. I fed the images into AI with specific instructions: Tell me what goes together. Tell me what doesn't. Tell me what I'm missing.
It worked better than I expected. Not because the AI has magical fashion sense, but because it can see color accurately and consistently—two things I cannot do.
I realized: if this works for me, it probably works for other people too. Not just the colorblind. Anyone with closet overwhelm. Anyone who buys the same black shirt three times because they forgot they already had it. Anyone who stares at options and feels nothing but paralysis.
Style Wizard is in beta now. You upload your closet, item by item. The system tags everything, suggests outfits, tells you what's missing.
It's not trying to make you fashionable. It's trying to make you confident. To give you the ability to look at yourself and know—not guess, know—that what you're wearing works.
I'm still colorblind. I'll always be colorblind. But I don't have to guess anymore.