i am trying to see if there is any common consensus.
do not try and associate this question with real-world objects or ideas. Purely choose a color based on the nature of the letter E.
i personally pick green but I might be tweakin
It’s green. If you have colours associated with letters or numbers, there’s a good chance you have a form of synesthesia.
I don’t have synesthesia, it’s natural for certain concepts to be related to other concepts, like letters to colors
I figure my mild associations come from magnetic alphabets on the fridge or something. Especially since I don’t have all of them mapped. I think all I really have is 3 is red
3 is definitely red.
I did not grow up with those magnets, but some pictures associated with each letter of the alphabet in preschool, and I think it had a similar effect. Red Apple for A, means A is red now and forever.
Butter yellow
Green or blue. Maybe kind of an aqua?
I was also thinking greenish blue. Though im leaning towards dark turquoise
Oh, yeah, turquoise is closer to what I was actually thinking. I’m bad with colors, aqua is too bright.
Turqoise works well for me, probably because “e” is the most common letter in English. I don’t picture it as anything bright, aggressive or weird, but peaceful and ever-present, like a field, or the sky.
Check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
I’ve always thought E was some kind of muted red
I have synesthesia and it’s always been turquoise (green/blue) to me. Interesting how many people seem to agree with me since I thought it would be pretty individual.
What the actual fuck?
I was going to write blue/greenish. How can that possibly be a thing??
What about:
ℰ
It could be the associations from the colorful alphabets you were exposed to as a kid.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/lots-of-cases-of-synesthesia-are-based-on-alphabet-magnets-748I had thought of that but surely we didn’t all have the same alphabet magnets.
In the before-times there were only a few companies that made these. Now that there are more Chinese manufacturers, it’s not quite as centralized to a couple brands, so yes, a LOT of kids and schools all had that exact same Fisher Price magnet set.
Where I was originally going with this was to say it seems to be consistent across people from different countries with different education systems and different educational materials.
But, now you’ve had me looking up vintage Fisher Price letter magnets. And yes, they do seem to use fairly consistent colours over time with the E being consistently blue so you could be on to something. Though not all the letters line up with my personal synesthesia, maybe about half do.
Yeh there’s often a census, it’s quite weird. Whats nis 9 for you?
9 is dark red
It’s a brick red for me.
It has a taste too. It’s not dry like bricks but it’s a dry taste. Not spicy. Not plain. Slightly fruity, an acid fruity.
Maybe a kind of teal, sea green.
Black, like all the other letters.
To me it’s more like yellow.
Totally agree
A very pale blue
Somewhat agree. I was thinking “blue but not quite”. Dirty or pale (or both) are reasonable qualifiers.
What a ridiculous and unnecessary question. The letter E is clearly light green.
Seems to be, yes.
Feel like its Green
Green agreed
(0, 0, 69) in RGB, or #000045 in HEX.
This is a dark blue color.
Without seeing your choice I was oscillating between blue and green but settled on green.
As a non-synaesthete, I dug around in my brain until the answer “white” came to me.
The reason: I am old and Control+E on a Commodore 64 (and some of its close relatives) would turn the cursor and text colour to white. It was the only Control+<letter> that affected a colour change too.
