[Moodles]

Perhaps I’m looking into the data too much, but it doesn’t surprise me that 0 is often the neutral white, black or grey, and that, because we use the base 10 number system, the pattern is the same for 10. These colours and numbers are both “clean”. It’s the same for 2: the most popular colours are blue, yellow, red then green, and that pattern is repeated for 20. Of course, this “pattern” is already broken since it should be 1 with the same pattern as 10 and 2 wirh the same pattern as 20. It would be interesting to see if patterns do indeed emerge with more data. I would certainly expect 100, 1000, 1,000,000 to often be white, black or grey.

For myself, I’ve always associated colours with days of the week. I don’t know if others have this, but it’s always felt more “obvious” what colours some days of the week are compared to others, like the feeling is stronger or the colour is more brilliantly defined. But I do wonder to what extent it may have just been me as a child tricking myself into thinking I’m special, and I’ve just forever embedded those colour memories, because it’s really not like if someone tells me “Wednesday” I automatically experience a powerful crimson red; I have to kind of ask myself: “what colour is Wednesday?” to experience it in my mind’s eye.