Friday Afternoon Fun: Color Your Numbers
What color do you associate with each number? Do you think any are universal? Write your answers and compare with others.
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What color do you associate with each number? Do you think any are universal? Write your answers and compare with others.
Mine are as follows:
1 = white
2 = green
3 = light blue
4 = orange
5 = royal blue
6 = navy blue
7 = yellow
8 = green
9 = burgundy
10 = black
Comment by Rusty — February 16, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
I don’t associate colors with any numbers. Words, though:
1 = whole
2 = fun
3 = odd
4 = band
5 = lucky
6 = family
7 = word, also enthusiasm
8 = eyes
9 = cube
10 = done
Comment by Susan M — February 16, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
I saw the figure 5 in gold.
Comment by Bryce I — February 16, 2007 @ 1:05 pm
for those of you who don’t get it.
Comment by Bryce I — February 16, 2007 @ 1:07 pm
Woah. This is a weird coincidence. Just this morning I posted a topic about synethesia over here.
Comment by BTD Greg — February 16, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
I don’t think this way with numbers, however:
C major = red
E-flat major = green
A=flat major = blue
D major = yellow
A major = brown
E major = orange
Comment by Bill — February 16, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
1 - greyish-black
2 - blue
3 - yellow
4 - red
5 - tan-flesh color
6 - white
7 - green
8 - orange
9 - dark brown almost black
10 - a mix of greyish-black, white, and a little red
Comment by Jack — February 16, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
1 - black
2 - brown
3 - apple green
4 - lightish blue
5 - dark blue
6 - yellow
7 - green
8 - reddish orange
9 - blue
10 - black
Comment by meems — February 16, 2007 @ 11:40 pm
I posted this before I compared with anyone else, but I can totally see 9 as burgundy, Rusty.
Comment by meems — February 16, 2007 @ 11:42 pm
They’re all black to me.
I wonder how many people unwittingly base their associations on UNO or Phase 10 cards or something.
Comment by Tom — February 16, 2007 @ 11:49 pm
I sometimes get a sense of music from colors. If I see a tree during the fall season, exploding with color, there’s almost this sense of music as well as sight. I also see parallel lines as rhythmic devices. Imagine clattering a stick along a picket fence. That is kind of the feeling I get when I see a bunch of lines next to each other. That’s one of the reasons I like listening to music and drawing at the same time or at least sort of humming a tune in my head while I’m drawing. One can influence the other.
Comment by danithew — February 17, 2007 @ 9:04 am
Danithew, it sounds like you have some synethesia. Very cool.
Comment by BTD Greg — February 17, 2007 @ 9:11 am
I don’t have much synthesia with keys in music, but I do see a maroon/purple when playing D flat.
The diatonic keys seem to be primary colors, and the flat keys are muted, richer colors.
E flat is more turquoise, for instance, compared to E, which is lime green.
D major is gold (I guess yellow).
I don’t like to play in the sharp keys, but I do use B major quite a lot — it’s pink.
Comment by D. Fletcher — February 17, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
I definitely make color associations, and I’m almost positive there is some synethesia going on in my system, though I’d have to think about it to figure out what. It’s amazing how varied the responses are here. I wonder if it’s this kind of “condition,” so to speak, that might make people predisposed to the arts, help draw them in? Some interesting studies could be made over this. I noticed how my response was different than others:
On ordinals:
1 black, occasionally white
2 orange
3 blue, sometimes green
4 red
5 orange-yellow, approaching brown
6 dark blue, approaching purple
7 definitely red. SOLID red
8 brown
9 a little ambiguous, but black springs to mind.
10 BLACK
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On the 88s:
c) Ionian = black and white
d) Dorian = orange or brown
e) Phrygian = definite RED, but a bit deeper toned than the ionian version of e
f) Lydian = pink, occasionally yellow, depending on the chord
g) Mixolydian = gray
a) Aeolian = very, very green
b) Locrian = brown, sometimes orange in hue
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The months are a bit more obvious:
January = white
February = pink
March = green
April = yellow green
May = green yellow
June = yellow
July = orange yellow
August = green, approaching brown
September = brown
October = black with hints of brown edges
November = harvest brown
December = multicolored, with a definite black ambiance
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Comment by Rhapsidiomite — February 19, 2007 @ 1:08 am
0 = black
128 = navy blue
255 = blue
32,768 = green
65,535 = cyan
8,388,736 = purple
11,674,146 = firebrick
15,792,383 = Alice blue
16,711,680 = red
16,753,920 = orange
16,777,215 = white
Comment by MeM — February 20, 2007 @ 3:44 am