Cymbolism lets you vote on the color you most associate with a given word, giving designers data on which colors best convey feelings. What color is the word “music?” How about the colors of words ...

As a writer, I think a lot about words and the given associations people have with them. Words have an incredible ability to conjure up images, sounds, smells, memories, and colors for people. One ...

This segment discusses the importance of selecting rich and specific vocabulary to be able to best communicate ideas. Students analyze how language functions in different contexts. Students determine ...

In the peculiar world of synesthesia, people experience an involuntary joining of different sensations. These individuals may, for example, feel intense facial pressure when listening to music or see ...

While the range of colors your eyes may perceive extends beyond the words language provides, languages around the globe are remarkably similar in how they partition the space of colors into a ...

No matter the season our natural landscape is an ever-changing riot of colors, in particular shades of browns, greens and blues. Birds, insects and flowers tint and hue the world with splashes of ...

No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer. Globally, different languages have divvied up the world of color using ...