Re: Vowel "colors" and chromoglyhs (Re: Synaesthesia)

On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 02:36:28PM -0600, Danny Wier wrote:
> A thought just came to me. (That happens occasionally.) A long time ago, I
> was toying with the idea of a syllabry, where the shape of each letter
> representing the consonant while the *color* of that consonant represents
> the associated vowel.
[snip]

Hmm. Colored vowels certainly evoke a chord in my mind. Somehow, I seem to
make different (although similar) associations with vowel *glyphs* and
vowel *sounds*.

As far as sounds go...
[o] is blue, even whitish blue
[a] is definitely red
[A] and [O] are dark red
[i] is bright yellowish white (creamy white sortof)
[y] is yellow
[u] is dark green or purple
[e] is pinkish white
[E] and [&] are crude yellow
[@], [@\], and other schwa variants are pale blue.
[u"] is vegetation green (this is probably an Ebisedian influence)

For some reason, the diphthong [ai] (or [aj] or [aI]) is pink, and [ia] is
orange.


T

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