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

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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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.

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    I had thought of that but surely we didn't all have the same alphabet magnets.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Yeh there’s often a census, it’s quite weird. Whats nis 9 for you?

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    What a ridiculous and unnecessary question. The letter E is clearly light green.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    Butter yellow

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Green or blue. Maybe kind of an aqua?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I was also thinking greenish blue. Though im leaning towards dark turquoise

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, yeah, turquoise is closer to what I was actually thinking. I'm bad with colors, aqua is too bright.

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    It's yellow.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A little e is forest green. But a capital E is red.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Red, totally red and somewhat bright.

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    White or black, depending on color scheme, as we can clearly observe right now. E

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I have the wrong synesthesia for this...

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yellow/orange.

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    Somewhat agree. I was thinking "blue but not quite". Dirty or pale (or both) are reasonable qualifiers.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I have synesthesia and it’s definitely black

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    #eee is a very light shade of grey

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I'm also aphantasiac and similarly have no idea what this question could possibly mean.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I don't have aphantasia nor synesthesia and I still wouldn't be able to say something other than just the common, printed black ink. I'm floored that there is such a consensus towards what-is-effectively-teal here. Is the majority of Lemmy denizens synesthetic?!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    I don't have any of those either, but if I try to think of the letter and then just "feel" a color, what pops up is green. I'm not sure if it's the shape or the sound, or that green has two Es in its name, but that's the color that appears for me.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    But the question is: how many who don't see a color would post in this thread at all?

    And if they do have synesthesia, how many self-select to places like piefed because they feel different from others.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Actually I just checked and estimates of the prevalence have gone up to 1 in 4 people having it. I long suspected that more people have it then actually realize, because one of the core experiences many of us have is to realize that what we have is not actually "normal"

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Maybe a kind of teal, sea green.

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    Yellow. Sometimes slightly darker and more orange.

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    (0, 0, 69) in RGB, or #000045 in HEX.

    This is a dark blue color.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Without seeing your choice I was oscillating between blue and green but settled on green.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Black, like all the other letters.

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  • Capital E is yellow, lowercase e is green.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It's green. If you have colours associated with letters or numbers, there's a good chance you have a form of synesthesia.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Brown

    Edit: Boy I guess nobody likes Brown E's....

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Salmon orange.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Emerald. Evergreen. Eucalyptus. Envy. Enamor. Endive. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Earth.

    Green checks out.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Green because it has the same vowel sound as the letter E in English.

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    I've always thought E was some kind of muted red

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    Bluish white.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    An elm tree.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    E is red cause E stands for Error

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    A light pinkish beige

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Uppercase E is red. Lowercase e is green. For me.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Green. At least in Czech. You should take into account that in different languages E can sound very differently.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    If I could obtain information about which glyphs I had in my words just by color, writing as I do would not form such a trial to my mind. With color highlighting any slips, my writing would display such facility that any man would, admiring my wit, fall into a swoon, so brilliantly would my words and constructions assault him.

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    Around #65b2fa

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Green seems about right, I mean it has two E’s in a few languages I can think of And thanks for asking the questions that really matter

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    What color is no caps?

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    Green (before I read your whole post, just the question)

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Black for me

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