What color is hindsight?
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A plurality say hindsight is blue.
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Hindsight is blue because…
- “Hindsight, being 20/20, is clear like a blue sky after the fog of uncertainty has lifted.”
- “You need to be calm to properly reflect on previous events, and calmness is blue.”
Hindsight is black because…
- “Hindsight for me means you can’t change anything now, which evokes feelings of regret. I would associate regret with black.”
Hindsight is grey because…
- “It’s always there to remind you, but you may never change it; it is grey like the stone it has set in.”
- “Hindsight is often overlooked too late—a crisp black-and-white blurred to grey.”
- “Hindsight means ‘past,’ and grey is the color of the past.”
Hindsight is yellow because…
- “Hindsight is looking into the past. Yellow is a color of the past, as things like paper turn yellow as they age.”
- “I think of hindsight as ideas, and the common characterization of ideas is a lightbulb, and the light is yellow.”
- “Hindsight is golden.”
Hindsight is red because…
- “The H really gives it a reddish-brown tone; this one’s really based on the letters rather than the word itself.”
Hindsight is brown because…
- “I think of sepia tones and dust. Nostalgia washed away by the sands of time.”