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What Color Is Your Name? A New Synesthesia Tool Will Show You.

Here’s your chance to see how people with synesthesia perceive letters and numbers — For as long as I can remember, I’ve seen letters and numbers as colors. It’s a form of synesthesia called grapheme-color synesthesia, and for me, this translating from symbols to colors happens most often with names. When I meet new people, I forget their name immediately. Don’t get me wrong…

Design

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What Color Is Your Name? A New Synesthesia Tool Will Show You.
What Color Is Your Name? A New Synesthesia Tool Will Show You.
Design

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Bootcamp

·Nov 13, 2022

Want to Draw? Start Small.

Drawing in tiny boxes can unlock your hidden talent 30 years ago, someone “important” told me I couldn’t draw. My mistake? I believed him. I was fresh out of college, and I wanted a job making maps and graphics for newspapers. I interviewed for an internship at the Associated Press, a major news organization in New York City. …

Drawing

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I believe everyone can draw
I believe everyone can draw
Drawing

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Prototypr

·Jun 22, 2021

What Color is Your Wednesday? Ask Yourself These Questions

Days and months are tinged with color when you have this kind of Synesthesia — I have always loved calendars. When I was a child, I couldn’t wait to get to sixth grade. I knew that every month, the teacher, Mrs. Pollack, would assign homework to draw a calendar that combined math problems with art. So every month, I would get to draw a calendar and decorate it with colors…

Synesthesia

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What Color is Your Wednesday? Ask Yourself These Questions
What Color is Your Wednesday? Ask Yourself These Questions
Synesthesia

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Nov 22, 2020

A Simple Illustrated Story for a Snowy Day

Bringing my Nana’s 1940s tale to life with little drawings — Myrtle, my nana, raised seven daughters on Cape Cod in the 1940s. With my grandfather she ran the Hotel Englewood, a fixture on the south Cape through the 1960s. She loved books and recorded stories on cassette recorders from her “command station” overlooking Lewis Bay. At some point, she wrote…

Illustration

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A Simple Illustrated Story for a Snowy Day
A Simple Illustrated Story for a Snowy Day
Illustration

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May 3, 2020

No Internal Monologue? No Problem.

Could lack of an inner voice mean there’s more room for thinking? — Earlier this year, Ryan Langdon published this article about discovering that not everyone has an internal monologue. It’s a great read with quotes from people who were just as shocked as I was to find out that there is such a thing as an internal monologue. My sister had seen…

Brain

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No Internal Monologue? No Problem.
No Internal Monologue? No Problem.
Brain

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Mar 29, 2020

Color your own alphabet, even if you don’t have Synesthesia

Because your letter B is not the same color as mine. — If you also “see” letters or numbers as colors, then you have what’s called grapheme-color synesthesia. I recently launched a project called “What Color is Your Name?” at Synesthesia.me. …

Synesthesia

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Color your own alphabet, even if you don’t have Synesthesia
Color your own alphabet, even if you don’t have Synesthesia
Synesthesia

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Prototypr

·Jan 27, 2020

Does your name match your personality?

It might, depending on the Synesthesia colors of your name. — I recently wrote an article here on Medium describing how my grapheme-color synesthesia defines the colors of letters and numbers, and ultimately, people’s names. One of the most common questions I get as someone with this form of synesthesia is “What color is my name?” The very next question is…

Synesthesia

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Does your name match your personality?
Does your name match your personality?
Synesthesia

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Dec 29, 2019

Synesthesia Names for Girls

From Brooklyn to Zoey, here are 20 gorgeous names to consider. — Good Housekeeping recently released the top 100 baby girl names and trends to watch for in 2020. Coincidentally, I just released a Synesthesia project that answers the question, “What color is your name?” Put them together and you get a list of the most beautiful baby names for girls, according…

Synesthesia

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Synesthesia Names for Girls
Synesthesia Names for Girls
Synesthesia

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Dec 29, 2019

Synesthesia Names for Boys

From Colton to Theodore, here are 20 rich, bold names to consider for your little boy. — Good Housekeeping recently released the most popular 100 baby boy names and trends to watch for in 2020. Coincidentally, I just released a Synesthesia project that answers the question, “What color is your name?” Put them together and you get a list of the most handsome baby names for boys…

Synesthesia

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Synesthesia Names for Boys
Synesthesia Names for Boys
Synesthesia

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Dec 29, 2019

How Arguing with my Boss Revealed my Synesthesia

Twenty years ago at a New York City tabloid, there was no way to explain that words have colors. — When I started my career back in the ’90s, my job — designing pages for newspapers — involved creating interesting arrangements of pictures and words that would hook readers. At the New York Daily News, I worked on the News desk with a team of 12 men responsible for designing…

Journalism

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How Arguing with my Boss Revealed my Synesthesia
How Arguing with my Boss Revealed my Synesthesia
Journalism

6 min read

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