User:VectorGraphics/Issues with color notation

Color notation presents several key issues:

• The spoken forms of color notation names are phonaesthetically very awkward, especially when inserted into languages like English.
• Color notation is built off of the 3-limit, with higher prime limits being based on commatic alterations to 3-limit intervals, as an awkward compromise between attempting to notate JI composition and interval size (the latter of which there are more specialized systems for).
• Color notation uses Latin-like number prefixes to avoid repetition at high exponents on non-3 primes, which creates an inconsistency.
• Color notation relies on a metaphor which it uses improperly and does not extend to higher primes, as it places red opposite blue, and green opposite yellow (when it should be red opposite green, and blue opposite yellow).
  • This metaphor produces additional issues for people with synesthesia.