What color is hindsight?

Hindsight is blue because…

• “In my eyes, it’s a very pale, greenish color, because when you look back, it’s usually tinged with melancholy and/or sadness.”
• “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…

• “Hindsight is grey because it’s looking back at the past, and the past is grey.”
• “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…

• “When I hear hindsight, I automatically think of the hind legs of a dog, and dogs are usually brown.”
• “I think of sepia tones and dust. Nostalgia washed away by the sands of time.”