Re: Vowelspace vs. Colorspace

Hallo!

John Vertical wrote:

> And now for something completely different:
>
> Do any of you draw associations between vowels and colors? I myself have a
> fairly logical (continuous) correspondence. I remember a few discussions
> with a more heavily synesthetic friend in high school and I think his vowels
> had fairly similar color associations.
>
> [vowel-colour associations snup]
I designed a vowel/colour association scheme for Old Albic.
In that scheme, /i/ is yellow, /a/ is red and /u/ is blue.
Hence, /e/ is orange, /o/ purple, /y/ green and /ø/ black.
The featureless harmony vowel /°/ is white.  The logic behind this
is that each of the three vowel features [+open], [+front] and
[+round] has a colour associated which mix in those vowels that
have more than one of these features.

However, I considered, and am still considering, flipping the colours
of /a/ and /u/, which would also result in the flipping of the
colours of /e/ and /y/.

Greetings,

Jörg.