Vladimir Nabokov experienced grapheme-color synesthesia — each letter of the alphabet triggered a specific color sensation. He documented these associations in Speak, Memory(1966), giving us a rare map of one writer's sensory world.
This tool renders his prose using those colors. You can view text letter-by-letter, or blended at the word level to see the “glow” a word might have carried for him.
The hard part:Nabokov described colors poetically (“the brow of burnt sienna,” “a pistachio T”), so mapping his words to hex codes required interpretation. Word blending is trickier still — he said “Valentina” and “Tamara” looked the same color to him, so we calibrated the algorithm until they matched. The result is one plausible reconstruction, not the definitive truth.