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

From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>

> 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. I wanted a type of "spectrum" where the front high
> (I-type) vowels were at one end and the front back (U-type) vowels were at
> the other. Since red is the lowest frequency and purple is the highest,
> maybe red could be /i/ and purple /u/. The center of the spectrum, green,
> represents /a/. Yellow is /E/, orange /e/, blue-green /O/, blue /o/.
What is my problem today, I made another mistake! Purple (or indigo or
something like that) should be /i/. Red should be /u/. Reverse the order of
ROYGBIV. Therefore:

Red = /u/
Orange = /o/
Yellow = /O/
Green = /a/
Blue = /E/
Indigo = /e/
Violet = /i/

Black, gray, brown, other colors would be assigned to other vowels besides
the main points of the "Italian triangle".