Why newborns see high contrast best — the science
A newborn's eyes and brain register bold light-dark differences far more strongly than anything subtle — so black-and-white patterns are not a fashion, they are simply what a…
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The card is high-contrast. The website doesn't have to be.
The black-and-white card is built for a baby's immature visual system; the website around it is read by an exhausted adult with ordinary eyes — two different pairs of eyes, two…
Nothing on the card but the card
We took the caption off the printed cards: a line of small text at the edge of a high-contrast pattern is clutter competing with the very thing the card is for — and the same…
Colour, in order: when babies see red, then blue, then green
Newborns see the world in light and dark, not colour; colour switches on in a known order — red first, then blue and yellow, then green, roughly over the first ~5–6 months. And…