colored writing
some thoughts on color terms as applied to writing:
- PURPLE prose is unnecessarily flowery writing
- YELLOW journalism is sensational writing
- BLUE literature is erotic writing
- BLACK humor is tragicomic writing
- GREEN texts are environmental writing
some semi-related items:
- vladimir nabokov claimed that he saw individual words as certain colors which is type of synesthesia.
- the writing system of the edo people is chromatographic (one which uses different colors to symbolize different letters)
