Online generator answers "What color is your name?"

"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 graphemecolor 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, youre 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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