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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What a ridiculous and unnecessary question. The letter E is clearly light green.
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
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A little e is forest green. But a capital E is red.
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.
Feel like its Green
White or black, depending on color scheme, as we can clearly observe right now. E
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.
A very pale blue
Somewhat agree. I was thinking "blue but not quite". Dirty or pale (or both) are reasonable qualifiers.
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.
I'm also aphantasiac and similarly have no idea what this question could possibly mean.
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?!
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.
What about F?
I get more of a reddish brown.
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.
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.
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"
Without seeing your choice I was oscillating between blue and green but settled on 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 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
I don't have synesthesia, it's natural for certain concepts to be related to other concepts, like letters to colors
Emerald. Evergreen. Eucalyptus. Envy. Enamor. Endive. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Earth.
Green checks out.
Green. At least in Czech. You should take into account that in different languages E can sound very differently.
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.
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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