How can I tell a blind friend what color Orange looks like?

Question

So far, I told him it's like an orange you eat or make juice out of but he just thinks it round.

Answer 1

Tell him it looks like a feeling of being warm and fresh at the same time.

Answer 2

Here is how I have helped blind chlidren explore colors:

1. Use eight shoeboxes. Label them: white, yellow, green,blue, purple, red, brown, and black.
2. Start with the box labeled "White". Fill it with the smallest pebbles. Put slightly larger pebbles in the next box, labeled "Yellow". Put even larger pebbles in the next box, labeled "Green. Use bigger and bigger pebbles and rocks in the remaining boxes . . . next is blue then purple, red, brown and black.
3. Blind or blindfolded, children then feel the pebbles in each box as you teach them the names of colors that go with box and size.
4. Blind children like to then "paint" with the different sized pebbles by creating "colorful" compositions with the rocks, using a flat surface as their canvas.
5. The EM spectrum is about photons, tiny bundles of energy, that wiggle and zoom off in waves. Photons all pretty much zoom at about the same speed. But, photons don't all make the same number of waves between point a and point b. Some photons make lots of waves, such as microwaves. Some zooming photons, such as radio waves, make a full wave only every 70 miles or so. We humans can only see photons that are waving in a very narrow range of size, the range we call "light". And, within that narrow range of waves, we see the different wavelengths as the different colors of light. When photons zoom into our eyes, our brains translate the different wavelenghts and we form an image of that color. Using the shoebox and range of pebble size is an effective alternative way to explore color when blind.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter what the color is to him. Tell him its a warm color but not hot.

I can't see some shades of red or green but I get along fine not knowing what the color actually looks like.

Answer 4

I am assuming that your friend has always been blind, if so the only way you can describe it is to compare it with emotions and sensations, I would describe it as happy and warm.

Answer 5

Turn him towards the sun and tell him to close his eyes and look towards it, that is orange.

Answer 6

It's the warmth of the sun with a little of the coolness of the moon.

Answer 7

a bright color

Answer 8

have you watched the movie "the Mask" with cher? he goes through the same thing.

Answer 9

its a mix between red and yellow.