Colors have great symbolic power. They make a difference in how we distinguish certain items (blue for cold, red for hot) and even in how we understand certain moods (think red for anger). But for the estimated 285 million people who suffer some form of visual impairment, colors don't make the same kind of difference. The Feelipa Color Code is intended to make colors newly accessible. It's color you can touch.
In the Feelipa system, a square is for red, a triangle is for yellow, and a circle is for blue. Three horizontal bars represent black, while two bars represent gray and one represents white. Elegantly combined, these and other figures appear as raised stickers that can be placed on items of the right color.
Developed in 2011 by Filipa Nogueira Pires, a Portugese designer, the Feelipa Color Code was tested at the Helen Keller Center in Lisbon, Portugal. The only problem now is that the Feelipa Indiegogo campaign failed to reach its funding goal. So there's no word on when and where we might see it next.
Source: Gizmodo
