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What color is the letter E?
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It's yellow.
Wait, is this why the show is called Bluey?!?
Green
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.
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-748
I 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.
What the actual fuck?
I was going to write blue/greenish. How can that possibly be a thing??
Yeh there’s often a census, it’s quite weird. Whats nis 9 for you?
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White
Yellow
To me it's more like yellow.
What a ridiculous and unnecessary question. The letter E is clearly light green.
Seems to be, yes.
Capital E is yellow, lowercase e is green.
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.
Green because it has the same vowel sound as the letter E in English.
Emerald. Evergreen. Eucalyptus. Envy. Enamor. Endive. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Earth.
Green checks out.
I have synesthesia and it’s definitely black
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+ that affected a colour change too.
Butter yellow
I don't even understand the question.
I mean, I know what you're asking, but I don't know how to answer it. Letters don't have colours. They don't have anything. Maybe it's my aphantasia, but I don't understand how a letter can have an innate colour or what that would even mean.
Letters don't have colors, but people may associate a specific color with a letter. It could be influenced by logos, symbols and just about anything that affected us personally in our life. It's not a logical binding.
E.g. I can imagine that a lot of people will associate the letter "x" with the color red, because they are often displayed in that color, especially when it symbolizes deletion. Perhaps someone was a big fan of the pro wrestling stable D-Generation X and therefore they see x in a green color. Another person thinks of a black X, because they are addicted to Twitter.
However I think most of us don't know why exactly we associate a color to a letter and it's the result of a looooot of links and associations.
It's not aphantasia, people with synesthesia connect different symbols and numbers with different colors...
(I say that, but it's actually more diverse than that, but the letter/number to color one seems to be the most prevalent)
... it technically is a neurological disorder where the signals get mixed up in the brain, although I haven't met someone with it yet who'd give it up.
Most people in this thread are coming up with an answer though. They can't all have synesthesia!
Most people here clearly see some connection, or have some sort of "default colour" for the letter.
But unless I picked a colour at random, I couldn't answer this question.
I dont have synesthesia, but in this moment when asked to imagine "E", I pictured it in my mind's eye, and it was kind of a muted dark red.
If you asked me tomorrow who knows.
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Feel like its Green
Green agreed
I don't have any sort of synesthesia, but tried to engage with the question. Was utterly unable to summon an opinion of my own, but reading through other answers yellow seems to "click" the most.
A little e is forest green. But a capital E is red.
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Green or blue. Maybe kind of an aqua?
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Yellow/orange.
Check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
Yellow
Let me take a bunch of acid and I'll come back to you on this..
White or black, depending on color scheme, as we can clearly observe right now. E
Red, totally red and somewhat bright.
A very pale blue
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Yellow. Sometimes slightly darker and more orange.
Like blue/green
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