Lee Freedman has waited a long time, but he thinks the moment is finally right to spring on the world the color alphabet he invented as a 19-year-old at Mardi Gras in 1972. For 35 years, between ...

Michelle Jane Lee has her own alphabet. Instead of letters, Lee uses small blocks of color to express her feelings. Most of Lee’s bright, minimalistic paintings and drawings, which are being shown as ...

A team of scientists studying thousands of people who see letters as colors (a rare condition known as synesthesia) have recently identified a remarkable pattern. A large chunk of them see relatively ...

While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in ...

Not everyone's senses are separate. Those with the neurological condition can hear colors, feel sounds and even see time as different points in space. When Bernadette Sheridan hears your name, she ...

A is candy-apple red, the first color of the rainbow and my name, everything’s blood-beginning. Are you sure you didn’t just memorize the colors from those alphabet charts in kindergarten? a skeptical ...