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How would we describe colours without seeing them?
Black is emptiness inside your chest and coolness outside at night. That one is simple
Red, orange, and yellow go together. They are the warmth radiating off of a fireplace in the middle of winter–orange especially. Though, yellow’s heat is lighter–less heavy. It feels like the sun on your skin and sounds like laughter.
Pink, and red too, feel like makeup or face-paint. But pink is also a sort of heat, but it’s different than red’s. Pink is the heat in your cheeks and tips of your ears when you feel embarrassed. Or, it’s the flutter of your heart as you gaze at someone you love.
Green is the sound of birds chirping in treetops. It can be smelt and felt while walking barefoot through a freshly cut lawn or through the forest after a rainfall.
Blue is more complex. There are frosty shades of it, which sound like the crunch of fresh snow under boots and feels just as sharp. And then there are the deep shades, which are found while you’re fully submerged in a body of water. Those shades are the coolness creeping into the bones, whereas the frosty ones that can be felt on the skin.
Purple is also complicated, but only because it’s a difficult colour to feel. It’s not a temperature or a depth. Rather, it’s a harmony line sung aloud or an instrumental chord.
White, similar to the frosty shades of blue, is the texture of marshmallows and the feeling of wind on your skin.
Do you agree with this colour spectrum?