1 is black
2 is light purple or tan
3…don’t know
4 is brown
5 is green
6 is light blue
7 is green
8 is navy blue
9 is black
Anyone else experience this?
Yep. Different colours, though.
0 is a slate grey,
1 is silver,
2 is green,
3 is red,
4 is brown,
5 is the same colour as 1,
6 is a dark orange,
7 is green (but darker than 2),
8 isn’t much of anything,
and 9 is yellow.
I’ve never thought much of it. It’s not like I’m synesthetic or anything; I think my brain just decided once that the colours would help me remember strings of digits better.
The condition is known as synesthesia. There have been threads here on it before, and there was an article on it in Discover, but I couldn’t find it on-line.
oh, c’mon! any techie knows that
0 is black
1 is brown
2 is red
3 is orange
4 is yellow
5 is green
6 is blue
7 is violet
8 is grey
9 is white
now, how many different nmeumonics are there for this?
bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls
bad boys rob our young girls behind victory garden walls
bad boys rape our young girls but violet goes willingly
bad boys rob our young girls but violet goes willingly
So, do you assume that every blank space on a screen is the number 9? Or is it a white 9 with a black outline?
I do experience this, but the colors aren’t constant. Rather, they seem to depend on the characters around the number (or letter).
Ooooh, oooh, someone who (kinda) thinks like me! My numbers don’t have colors but, they DO have gender:
1 - male
2 - female
3 - male
4 - male
5 - androgynous
6 - female
7 - male
8 - male
9 - female
Colors have gender, too:
red - female
yellow - female
orange - female
blue - male
green - male
I’m not weird, right?
ZeGirl,
For me, red, blue and purple are male while orange, green and yellow are female.
And thanks for the heads-up in the other thread.
…for silver and gold.
Yes, it actually becomes more crude when you add the multiplier colors.
Better be right or your great big venture goes west. I learned that one in school. The instructor couldn’t have possibly used the other ones because we had girls in the class. Besides, Mr. Lambert was just too nice a guy for that kind of thing.
[sub]…I always thought that #2 was brown…[/sub]
For an interesting fictional take on this, see John Crowley’s Aegypt. The main character is a historian with a similarly colorful take on numbers, and he sees historical events in the colors associated with their years.
To me, they’re just numbers. But eight tastes like graham crackers.
1 is white
2 is green, or occasionally red
3 is yellow
4 is blue
5 is sand-yellow
6 is pale ice-blue
7 is chocolate brown
8 is red or purple
9 is yellow and black (stripes, like a wasp)
0 is black
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*Originally posted by Mangetout *
**9 is yellow and black (stripes, like a wasp)
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I had to look this up and you are correct since they are a type of wasp, but I wanted to yell:
[list][list][list][list][list][list]NO! YELLOW JACKET![LIST]:eek:
Dang it Kalashnikov, you beat me to it
I am so so sorry, but 3, 8, and blue are all female. Yellow, orange, and 5 are all boys. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
I’m so glad someone else has assigned numbers a gender. I suddenly feel much more at peace in the world. 
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*Originally posted by kniz *
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*Originally posted by Mangetout *
**9 is yellow and black (stripes, like a wasp)
**
Does anyone have any stats on how supposedly “rare” this is? The article I read said it was rare, as if it was some sort of Oliver Sacks-esque condition. Yet it seems like a lot of people do it to some extent. I get colors for numbers, days of the week, months of the year, and some letters and names.
PS I can’t believe no one else thinks 5 is red! I feel so alone!
Sorry, that was meant to be me saying:
(USA)‘Yellowjacket’ = (I think)Vespula Vulgaris = (UK)‘Wasp’
Oh, my gosh, no not at all. All my numbers have colours and genders, and all my colours have genders of their own. Never stopped to think about whether or not it all matches up; let’s see:
0=black
1=emerald green
2=yellow
3=red
4=kind of an ochrey shade of orange
5=blue
6=red-orange
7=cyan
8=purple
9=yellow-green
0=male
1=male
2=female
3=female
4=female
5=male
6=female
7=male
8=female
9=female
red=male
orange=female, but kinda tomboy-ish
yellow=male
green=female
blue=female
purple=male
white=female
black=male
Hrm, no, they don’t match up. I guess I didn’t expect them to. (number/colour and number/gender are usually unconnected in my mind. Colour/gender was tough to determine, since I, as an artist, recognize so many different hues, and of course each of these different hues has a different gender. For example, an nice deep green like viridian is undeniably feminine (to me) but if you take a light green and maybe mix in a little yellow–like the colour of the fresh grass in spring–then green starts to become more masculine.)
In any event, I find this all to be very pyschologically fascinating.
Just caught katiekilldare’s post in preview. You really think orange is a boy? I’ll have you know my orange is sitting on the floor in her overalls crying her little girly orange eyes out, wailing, “But I’m a girl! I really am!!”
What kind of orange are you picturing? Is it like a red-orange? Like, almost a rust colour? Cause I could see how you could be confused, then.
(Something I just thought of. Do colours and numbers have ages? When I was thinking of orange just now I pictured a little girl, but blue and green, at least, are grown women. Hmmm…)
::sigh:: Either you people type really fast or I type really slow. Just got delphica’s post on this preview… And all I want to say is:
me too.