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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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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

It's yellow.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I have the wrong synesthesia for this...

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

#eee is a very light shade of grey

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Brown

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

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 20 points 1 week ago (4 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.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago

What the actual fuck?

I was going to write blue/greenish. How can that possibly be a thing??

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Cherry@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a brick red for me.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

It has a taste too. It’s not dry like bricks but it’s a dry taste. Not spicy. Not plain. Slightly fruity, an acid fruity.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

What about:

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To me it's more like yellow.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Totally agree

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, is this why the show is called Bluey?!?

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Butter yellow

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Green or blue. Maybe kind of an aqua?

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago
[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (8 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.

[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

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[–] phonics@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] tangible@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

Let me take a bunch of acid and I'll come back to you on this..

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yellow/orange.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago
[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago
[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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

This is a dark blue color.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Green agreed

[–] markz@suppo.fi 3 points 1 week ago

Yellow. Sometimes slightly darker and more orange.

Red, totally red and somewhat bright.

Capital E is yellow, lowercase e is green.

[–] nettie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
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