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"Lois L.Van Broekhoven" Date: Thu May 13, 1999 1:41 pm Subject: Re: Color Coding SW Symbols | ||||||||
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Lourdes, It is great to see you on this listing. It has been a long time since we saw you and you family. How are you all doing? How is Sabrina? The girls miss her and still talk about how we went to a restaurant together and they could sit at a separate table. Give us a call sometime and we can get together. Summer is coming soon and the kids will have some free time. Lois and Yassy Lourdes Tollette wrote: > [Lourdes Tollette] Val wrote: > So I am writing to ask members of the SW List what you all think.... > > First to give you some background... > > The color coding chart is located at the bottom of this web page: > > Color Coding of SW Symbols > https://www.SignWriting.org/learn002.html > > You will see that I chose" > > Face.....green > hands....blue > movement....red > contact....pink > punctuation...yellow > body & arms.....black > > There is actually a logic attached to those choices. Movement is "action" > and so it is "red". Green is a warm color, and so facial expressions are > green. And the hands are "mercurial" - in mythology, Mercury was the great > "communicator" - and mercury is a "silvery blue" color, so since the hands > communicate so much in signed languages, I chose blue for the hands. And I > chose yellow for punctuation, because in the USA, road signs are yellow. > Puncutation is like a "stop sign", the punctuation symbols tell you to > stop, pause etc. And like stick figures, the body and arms are black > lines. So I tried to use colors that some people can "relate to". > > You can see this color coding used on these three web pages: > > Learn To Read lesson > https://www.SignWriting.org/learn005.html > > https://www.SignWriting.org/learn006.html > > https://www.SignWriting.org/learn007.html > > So here are my questions to the SW List... > > 1. Do you feel that color coding of SignWriting symbols is a good idea? > Does it help to learn the SW symbols? [Lourdes Tollette] The color coding > are great idea for the children to start to learn or adult who being to > learn and it would be better to use color coding. > > 2. Were my choices of colors logical to you? Or would you have chosen > different colors? [Lourdes Tollette] Well, I am adult and I might choose > to stay with black because I already understand signwriting. If I am new > and I would've take color coding. > > One person suggested that we put the color coding in our dictionaries. > Another person suggested that the actual children's stories should be > written in color coding. Right now they are in one solid color, as on this > page: > > Goldilocks, Intermediate > https://www.SignWriting.org/gold001.html > > 3. So do you all feel that the stories themselves, or our dictionaries, > should be color coded? [Lourdes Tollette] Well, Not all but if the > stories and dictionaries are for the children then I think it would good > idea to use color coding. > For example: It is was for beignner use color colding only. Intermediate is > for black (people who already know signwriting) > > I appreciate your time and input everyone! > > Many thanks - > > Valerie :-) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Valerie Sutton > > SignWriting > > https://www.SignWriting.org > > The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW > Center For Sutton Movement Writing > an educational nonprofit organization > Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ||||||||
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