See numbers in colour? What colours?

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If you associate numbers with colours, please post here.

0 - White
1 - Dark grey to black, some blue
2 - Red
3 - Green
4 - Brownish orange
5 - Blue
6 - Red
7 - Yellow
8 - Orange
9 - Dark purple to blue

Does it help you work with numbers in your head? What are the advantages and possible disadvantages of seeing numbers in colour (synesthesia?).
If you wish, we can extend this to cover letters too. A is certainly yellow.

Last edited by Keoren on 12 Feb 2008, 3:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I don't really "see" numbers and letters in color, on the page they are black and white, but each letter and number does have a color associated with them

0 - White
1 - Black
2 - Blue
3 - Red
4 - Brown/tan
5 - Magenta
6 - Green
7 - Yellow
8 - White (yes, there are repeats)
9 - Dark green

Also a combination of numbers will have a color for the entire unit, like 13 being rose.

No, A is blue. Z is yellow. B is red, C is cream or white, D is green, E is black, F is tan, G is gray. Words too, especially names, will have their own color, usually taken from the color of the initial letter.

I don't find it distracting, it's kind of a fun little game. I use it a lot when color-coding documents at work. Nobody has ever asked me why I have chosen to assign the colors I do.

Also, do you see "faces/facial expressions" in numbers? Like 4 is a nose, 9 is a smile, 2 is stern and serious, that sort of thing?

A - Yellow
B - Red
C - Blue to cyan
D - Orangish
E - Red
F - Yellow to light orange
G - I'm actually bit unsure. It's a mess.
H - Greyish green
I - Blue
M - Dark brown
Z - Orange

When it comes to words, I see colours, but I rarely pay too much attention to them solely as I already start having vivid images inside my head. Numbers and letters do also float out there, but don't cause as much chaos.



I could associate them if I wanted, but don't do it automatically. I'm more a colour person though even then the expressions are pretty much influenced by their original colour (like smile = red, eyes = blue).

0 - transparent like glass
1 - white with a hint of blue
2 - blue
3 - orange
4 - forest green
5 - very dark almost brownish shade of purple
6 - yellow
7 - dark red
8 - very dark shade of green
9 - black

Sometimes...

1-Blue
2-Blue again
3-Green
4-Also blue
5-Red
6-Green again
7-Brown
8-Also green
9- Black

In other words, they're colored like the characters on Thomas the Tank Engine.

1 = black
2 = blue
3 = cream
4 = orange
5 = green
6 = red
7 = dark purple
8 = yellow
9 = brown
0 = silver-white

Have them clearly for days of the week as well. To some extent for months and letters. I've always wondered if there is someone who has them exactly like me...

Would you like to share these days? I also see days in colour.

Monday - Yellow
Tuesday - Mix of red and purple
Wednesday - Yellow (though the shade is usually different from Monday's)
Thursday - Orange
Friday - Blue
Saturday - Very very light blue with a hint of yellow and white
Sunday - Dark blue with maybe shades of brown and purple

Monday = light green
Tuesday = cream with blue
Wednesday = orange
Thursday = dark green
Friday = red
Saturday = brown with purple
Sunday = yellow

To a certain amount, I do:

0 white
1 black
2 green
3 grey
4 a more turquoisish green
5 red
6 brown
7 dark red
8 turqoise
9 violet

0= black and white
1= black
2= white
3= green
4= red
5= blue
6= yellow
7= brown
8= purple
9= beige
It helps me remember phone numbers etc.

Monday= yellow
Tuesday = orange
Wednesday= green
Thursday = beige
Friday = white
Saturday = black
Sunday = reddish brown

I also associate letters and countries with
colours,but to a lesser extent

bunch of synasthaesic hippies

I associate sounds with shapes and colours.. does that count?

0-White
1-Blue
2-Red
3-Yellow
4-Green
5-Blue
6-Red
7-Green
8-Black
9-Red
10-Blue

See, Mondays are not blue, not necessarily

I imagine

1, L and T as black
2, A and S as red
3 and E as dark blue
4, C and O as light yellow
5 and U as light brown
6, M and R as dark green
7, G and K as dark brown
8, N and P as light green
9 as orange
0 and I as white
B as light blue
D as an eggy yellow
F as purple
H as grey
Q as transparent
V and Y as beige
X and Z as black.

Oh, and melodies in a major key are yellow, those in a minor key blue.

1 is yellow, 5 is red. Always.