Article 4YFWE Online generator answers "What color is your name?"

Online generator answers "What color is your name?"

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Rusty Blazenhoff
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"What Color is Your Name?" is a website that associates your name, or any name, with blocks of colors. The project's creator, Bernadette Sheridan, has grapheme-color synaesthesia, which means her brain perceives numerals and letters as very specific colors.

She explains:

...I am terrible at remembering names. I hear the name, but my mind is distracted. In my head, I am calculating the number of letters in the name, and visualizing the colors of each letter. Your name may be Emily, but to me, you're a bright, happy swath of five letters with an "E" and an "I". When I meet you again later, I may think your name is Emily or Jille or Ellie. Five letters, with an "I" and an "e."

Sheridan also offers, at a reasonable price, your name-color portraits as prints.

(Coudal Partners)

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