How would you describe the color "yellow" to a blind (since birth) person?

Answer 1

Since a blind person has never seen the things and the difference between darkness and light I would use the other senses to find ways to describe colors. To establish what one color is I'd also have to establish what the other colors are. The definitions would of course be individual and would only work when I'm communicating with that specific person.

I'd use cold, smooth things with little or no scent to describe white. Leaves and plants that smells fresh and new to describe green. For yellow I would probably use citrus fruits (lemon) that has been sitting in the sun so that they are slightly warm. For red I'd use something red hot and the sound of water or some other fluid sizzling on it. I'd also explain other things that goes with the thought of colors, cold as snow, hot as fire, the freshness of yellow and so on to give the blind person an idea of when the colors are most common and what they are sometimes used for.

Answer 2

Yellow Blind

Answer 3

Even for non-blind people, there is no guarantee that we see colors the same way. 10-15% of men are red-green "color-blind" and have diminished perception of red and green colors.Visual artists have a great sensitivity to color and use colors in ways that sometime astonish viewers of their art. For most of us, we form a consensus on color by agreeing to call certain common things by color names. For example, grass and American money are green, the sky is blue, blood is red, clouds are white, and the sun is yellow. That's probably the best way to try to convey what "yellow" is to a blind person: it's the color of the warm and luminous sun. Silver is the color of the light reflected by the sun from the moon and is cooler.

Answer 4

Even for non-blind people, there is no guarantee that we see colors the same way. 10-15% of men are red-green "color-blind" and have diminished perception of red and green colors.Visual artists have a great sensitivity to color and use colors in ways that sometime astonish viewers of their art.

For most of us, we form a consensus on color by agreeing to call certain common things by color names. For example, grass and American money are green, the sky is blue, blood is red, clouds are white, and the sun is yellow. That's probably the best way to try to convey what "yellow" is to a blind person: it's the color of the warm and luminous sun. Silver is the color of the light reflected by the sun from the moon and is cooler.

Answer 5

As I understand it blind people aren't able to even comprehend things having to do with color and light, so this would be a really tough task. I would probably try to find a wide variety of textures to take this person through the entire spectrum. That would be really tough though. It would require a lot of creativity and thought. Good luck.

Answer 6

When you see the color yellow how does it make you feel?

Put these feelings into words and use them to describe the color Yellow?

When I see the color yellow it make me happy and It reminds me of the warmth from the sun.

Answer 7

Warm and light, like sunlight. I is the closest to white of all the colors. Daylight.
But a blind person has no idea of colors.

Answer 8

umm, if someone's blind, then they won't really kniw what it looks like...but....
whenever i stand under the sun and close my eyes, i can FeEl yellow kinda :)
read a Baby Knows Colors book to the blind person:) jk
thats all i can tell ya

Answer 9

I was having lunch with a blind classmate one day when we started talking about how she had no perseption of color. For all the people that had tried to explain it in various ways she just didn't understand any of them. We explained for a while, and felt very good about ourselves; and she seamed to catch our excitement and "understood". but later on it occured to me, for all the people that had explained it before, who were we to say anything new or different. she had to have pretended to understand for our benefit.

Good luck, but be warned - color just doesn't mean anything to them.

Answer 10

Tell them about "synesthesia".You can google to find more on this:
From google:
I was listening to the radio program about Magna Jenssen, a blind artist
who feels colors and I wanted to learn more about it.
I started to find articles about synthenesia and thought this article
could be of interest
Visual synaesthesia in the blind in Perception 2004
http://matrix.aklab.psych.ubc.ca/uploads/Tessa_Synaesthesia
BlindPeople_P.pd
EDIT..Don't click on matrix...you have to have authorization to go there.