| 1997 | Brettel–Viénot–Mollon dichromat simulation model (basis of Vischeck) |
| 1999–2002 | ColorBrewer introduces “colorblind safe” flags — first mainstream CVD tagging |
| 2002 | Okabe & Ito publish the Color Universal Design page |
| 2004 | CUDO founded in Tokyo |
| 2006 | JIS X 8341-5 requires color-vision consideration on office equipment (→ ISO/IEC 10779, 2008) |
| 2008 | Okabe–Ito 8-color palette paper; Adobe CS4 ships CUD soft-proofing worldwide |
| 2009 | Machado et al. physiologically-based simulation (IEEE TVCG) — the standard model |
| 2009 | Paul Tol’s SRON schemes, first issue (3.2 in 2021) |
| 2011 | Wong’s Nature Methods column spreads Okabe–Ito through the life sciences |
| 2012 | Jenkins Wall Display .colorblind theme — oldest app-level CVD theme found |
| 2015 | viridis becomes matplotlib’s default (2.0) |
| 2018 | cividis (PLOS ONE); Crameri’s Scientific colour maps begin |
| 2019 | Ultimaker Cura Colorblind Assist themes; Blockly deuteranopia/tritanopia block themes (education) |
| 2020 | Crameri et al., The misuse of colour in science communication (Nat. Comms) |
| 2021 | GitHub ships colorblind themes beta to all users (Sep); DaltonLens reviews open-source sim models; Petroff accessible cycles (arXiv:2107.02270); Insomnia ships Dark Colorblind (first API client) |
| 2022 | GitHub splits Protanopia & Deuteranopia / Tritanopia theme variants (Apr) |
| 2023 | Helix ships GitHub-CB + modus CVD themes in its runtime; Zeileis et al., “Coloring in R’s Blind Spot” (R Journal) documents base R’s CVD redesign |
| 2024 | LaTeX colorblind package (Tol schemes for documents); Argonne CVD radar colormaps; matplotlib ships petroff6/8/10 styles |
| 2025 | Qualpal (JOSS) — generative CVD palette optimization; CTAO institutional best-practices; Shroom Space’s CI-enforced CVD variants |
| 2026 | datum, Opo (363 contrast checks), Slatis Nyx, orca-themes (quantified CIEDE2000), ColorSafe, Cindervale, Hakimi, first GitLab CVD skin, first Xcode CVD theme; WezTerm ships 7 CVD schemes built-in; first JupyterLab CVD theme (Pitaya Smoothie); app-level: Grafana, coder, Kilocode, Daintree ship first-party CVD themes |