How would you describe the color violet to a blind person?

Consider that the person was born blind.

How would you describe the color violet to a blind person?
Violet is a visual thing, and to descibe it to a person who cannot see would be extremely difficult, but you must somehow engage the other sences.





Taste is a good one...try a concord grape , as was suggested above.Scent is another....I would try the fragrance of lilacs. For touch, I would use violets...they are very delicate, like the color itself. They have a very faint odor, to most, but because of the heightened sensitivity of a blind person, he may be able to detect an odor. Violet does not have a sound associated, unfortunately.
Reply:Describing a color is about as easy as naming an object that is said color. That's a good, general way to go about it.





Because the person is blind, and has been so since birth, it would be quite difficult. Having had no actual experience with visible color the person could theoretically imagine anything they wanted to regardless of how you describe it. What they imagine and how they describe it to you may be completely different from how you see the color violet.
Reply:As for tastes chocolate can be good too.(I know it normally reminds you of brown,but if you want to imply luxury and royalty of violet,it's useful.)





Also it's a color used to show magic and wisdom and sometimes exotic and artifitial things. The feeling can be described lukewarm.(between hot red and cold blue).


For music I think a homonic piano piece would be suitable.


for example piano sonata no.18 by Beethoven.





For more information you can read books about color psychology.
Reply:some people who are blind can actually see a little bit but mostly only see shadows and lights. if they are born blind it might be a little worse because as apposed to someone who just became blind later in life, someone who is born blind has never seen anything. at all. so they don't know what anything looks like.





Now for describing the color violet to a person who is born blind never seeing anything before it would be difficult to explain it to them because normally you would say its like purple a mix between blue and red but they don't know what blue or red is or what it looks like so it would be extremely hard for them to picture it and for you to describe it
Reply:since people who have been blind their entire lives know nothing about color, i would say that to describe violet would be to take them outside on an early morning and let them feel the predawn, temperature and mood of the setting. or to play a moving peice on a violin solo.
Reply:Violet is a really deep purple so I would say it is like midnight on a summers day. all warm and cosy and velvetty and don't forget purple is a royal colour.
Reply:if you are on the beach at sunsite time close your eyes.. and feel the warm of the sun on your skin and at the same time feel the cold sand under your feet.. that is the violat color feels 4 me
Reply:Give them something that smells of jasmine. That's a very familiar aura to the color violet. IMHO.
Reply:Why that particular colour??
Reply:Give them a concord grape. Tastes very purple.
Reply:it would be bright white thats wat i would think if i were blind