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I know what you're saying, and I've engineered with/for enough non-technical people (many musicians for instance) who use colors to describe what they hear or want, but unfortunately, it's completely useless outside of a very personal understanding between two people.
The reason being is that it's so unbelievably subjective and esoteric that trying to decipher these things accurately is an exercise in futility.
I remember I assistant engineer on one session with a well known 1st engineer and a household name musician for a film score.
At one point, we were listing back to the overdubs, and the musician said "I feel like it needs more yellow".
Me and the engineer look at each other and we've both got the "here we go" faces on. So as not to challenge his statement, we start trying to warm up the timbre via eq and very light tube compressing.
He starts to complain it's not right, "it's getting more blue" so we just straight out ask what the fuck he means.
He points to the EQ knobs. On the desk we're using, the high EQ knob was yellow and the upper mid knob was Blue.
We all laughed about it but during the conversation, it became apparent that (EQ knob colors aside) his interpretation of what yellow and blue would have been, was quite different (as a musician) to what we as engineers leaned towards.
Case in point; it depends how you're brain is wired. Yellow can mean bright to some people (why the color high EQ knobs yellow) and warm to others (like you).
For those reasons, I stay away from using colors to describe sounds. And then there's the much bigger issue of what we each call each color (is my blue the same as your blue or do you think that color is red? Let's not go there).
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