To sign color in ASL, raise your dominant hand to your chin with the fingers spread and the palm facing you. Hold the fingertips at the chin and lips and flutter the fingers for a moment, then lower the hand. The sign stays in one place; only the fingers move.
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How to sign it
Handshape: an open hand with the fingers spread.
Location: the fingertips at the chin and lower lip.
Movement: the fingers flutter while the hand stays in place.
Palm orientation: the palm faces you.
Use it in a sentence
COLOR WHAT?
What color?
This video holds the fingertips at the chin. Lifeprint notes that the fingers can also flutter just in front of the chin without touching it, and that signing color with furrowed eyebrows usually means "what color?"
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Description checked against AISA's own video (the reference); Lifeprint (ASL University), lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/c/color.htm.
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