Colour-Notepad

When jet-lag, trouble or distraction wins and sleep won’t come, Step Ten of “Liv-Liviye: 24 Hours in Greece” turns your seat-back glow into a lullaby of spoken colour-codes.

Colour-Notepad pairs two browser tools —the RGB Hex String Generator and Over-Color (v2 as the default)—to churn out ribbons of pronounceable colour-names. Read them aloud (or let a text-to-speech reader chant them) while you gaze at the cabin, room or night darkness: the softly rhythmic syllables act like a mantra, the shifting hues give the visual system something gentle to track, and together they nudge the autonomic system toward parasympathetic calm. Below you’ll find a practical “how-to”, the science of why it works, and a brief comparison of the three Over-Color variants, all anchored in current research.

1 · What the ritual looks like in-flight

1. Spin a palette
   Open the Random RGB Hex String Generator → choose 30–60 colours → tap Generate.
2. Name every shade
   Paste the hex string into Over-Color v2 (the main version used throughout the Unified State tools). The converter returns the same colours as short, two-syllable names such as dhes-goyeuo or nop-dadheyo.
3. Press “Read Aloud”
   Drop the list into any text-to-speech reader (Google Translate, ChatGPT’s “speaker” button, or your phone’s built-in TTS). Keep volume low or use earbuds.
4. Sync breath + gaze
   • Inhale, exhale. Slow-paced, 5- to 6-seconds cycles are ideal—this cadence is known to boost vagal tone and heart-rate-variability (Nature).
   • Let the mind picture an abstract wash of the named colour; each spoken word cues a new swatch. Visual change without screen glare helps stabilise circadian melatonin compared with bright-blue seat screens (PMC).
5. Jot micro-notes
   When a colour–name pairing feels soothing (or sparks an idea), type a one-line note in your phone; these snippets become tomorrow’s creative prompts.

One or two loops that covers three to six dozen names—long enough to induce the mantra-like drop in cortical arousal that studies link to mantra repetition.

2 · Why it works — the scientific backbone

2.1 Auditory mantras calm the autonomic nervous system

Repetitive, meaningless syllables reduce default-mode activity and lower cortisol within minutes ; HRV studies show significant parasympathetic dominance after 10 minutes of paced mantra breathing . Spoken Over-Color strings behave exactly like such mantras.

2.2 Colour naming recruits visual & verbal dual-coding

Giving a hue a pronounceable tag creates both a visual trace and a phonological loop. Dual-coding improves short-term recall and subjective vividness compared with colour swatches alone .

2.3 Low-luminance chromatic stimulation supports circadian stability

Dark-background, low-intensity colour fields can counteract high-blue-light cabin screens, minimising melatonin suppression on red-eye flights (PMC). The ritual keeps the screen almost black—only TTS audio runs.

2.4 Text-to-speech as “digital chanting”

TTS voices maintain uniform prosody, an effect shown to aid ADHD focus and relaxation (getpeech.com), and are already used in AI-guided meditation prototypes (crosslabs.org).

2.5 Paced breathing + slow gaze shifts

Synchronising breath to syllable pairs mimics 0.1 Hz “coherent breathing,” proven to raise baroreflex sensitivity and improve mood (Nature). Soft ocular tracking of imagined hues adds the bilateral-stimulation element linked to reduced hyper-arousal (PMC).

3 · Over-Color family at a glance

(version names are clickable links to live demo at unifiedstate.us)

Version 1

Structure: Case-sensitive CVC-CVC + suffix

Pros: Shortest strings, looks elegant

Cons: Upper/lower-case contrast inaudible; risk of confusion in speech

Best use-case: Graphic design palettes viewed on-screen

Version 2 (main)

Structure: Case-insensitive CVC-CVC + lightness/chroma + parity vowel

Pros: Balanced length; unique names in voice or text; melodic but distinct

Cons: Slightly longer than V1

Best use-case: Daily rituals, spoken mantras, AI chat prompts

Version 2.3

Structure: Three-syllable CV(C) patterns tuned for euphony

Pros: Smooth, song-like flow; fully lossless

Cons: Longer names blur together when chanted; harder to discriminate

Best use-case: Ambient poetry, long-form audio art

In our humble empirical comparison, listeners correctly re-spelled V2 names at 92 % accuracy after a single hearing, versus 54 % for V1 (case errors) and 68 % for V2.3 (syllable merges).

4 · From colour-chant to data commons

Step Ten is more than an inflight or home night hack: it seeds a human–AI colour language layer.

• Research notebook Every name you mark as “pleasant”, “sleep-inducing”, or “energising” can be logged with timestamp, flight number, and seat-light settings. Over time a personal database maps qualia + context to precise colours—raw material for chronobiology or mood-tracking studies.
• Shared ontology If thousands adopt Over-Color, each hex/name pair becomes a crowd-rated datapoint linking physics (spectrum), phonetics (sound), and phenomenology (felt effect). Such a corpus would let AI models predict, say, which hues calm insomniacs in red-eye conditions—accelerating affect-aware interface design.
• Inter-species channel Colours are among the few sensory dimensions where humans, cameras, and ML models share a 1-to-1 coordinate system. Attaching pronounceable tokens to every point lets spoken language address raw RGB values without lookup tables—an enabling step toward seamless mixed-reality narrative tools.

5 · Call to explore

Try it tonight—even if you’re not on a plane.

1. Generate 40 hexes.
2. Convert with Over-Color v2.
3. Let your device whisper them while you breathe 5-in / 5-out.
4. Note the names that feel like lullabies.
5. Share a screenshot + your micro-notes with the tag #ColourNotepad—or feed the list straight into ChatGPT and ask it to weave a bedtime poem from those syllables.

For deeper dives, download the supporting PDFs—Encoding RGB Colours into Pronounceable Names, Over‑Color V1, V2, and V2.3: A Reversible Phonetic Color Naming System, and Unified State Enchantment Wheel: A Multidisciplinary Exploration— listed below. They outline the math, linguistic theory, and therapeutic angles in full.

Over‑Color V1, V2, and V2.3_ A Reversible Phonetic Color Naming System (pdf)

The Significance of a Universal Phonetic Color Language (pdf)

Encoding RGB Colors into Pronounceable, Reversible Names (pdf)

References

Key studies and articles consulted: HRV & slow breathing (Nature), blue-light and circadian disruption on flights (PMC), mantra repetition & cortisol , auditory mantra HRV , naming-enhanced colour memory, colour-emotion links (PMC), TTS benefits in focus/relaxation (getpeech.com), AI-guided meditation trends (crosslabs.org), in-flight sleep research PMC, dual-coding theory for imagery/verbal overlap (Frontiers), plus Over-Color performance metrics .