Chromesthesia

Chromesthesia is a general name given to any type of synesthesia where the inducer is sound or music and the concurrent is (or includes) colour.

All the following types of synesthesia can be called chromesthesia (the links go to the pages on each type):

Musical note-colour (=tone-colour)

Chord-colour

Timbre-colour (and timbre colour/shape)

Key signature-colour

Musical mode-colour

Song-colour, musical genre-colour

General sounds-colour (and general sounds-colour/shape)

Voice-colour (and voice-colour/shape)

This image: Loria187, on Reddit/Synesthesia. 2020. 

Go to the page on all the music-related types of synesthesia (not just chromesthesia)

This page last updated: 10 October 2022