A plurality say the letter “X” is black. Click a color to add your vote.
The letter “X” is black because…
“X is math and math is black.
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“X is for Xaden Riorson who has black swirls on his left arm. He is the definition of the letter X.”
“The letter ‘X’ is black because ‘X’ means no, and is rather striking, and black is not really a color.”
“X-ray.”
“The letter ‘X’ is black because of formerly Twitter.”
“X by Elon Musk is black.”
“A mysterious letter gets a mysterious colour.”
“Black X-rays.”
“First of all the X, aka the Twitter, logo is black; second, X seems like a very serious letter that is associated with secret agents who wear black suits.”
“X in math is the unknown, and you can’t tell what’s in the pitch dark.”
“Because of Twitter, oh wait, I mean X!”
“X is black because Twitter is X and also because when I think of X I think of death.”
“Because of the social network.”
“Think Twitter.”
“X is black because the first word that comes to my head that starts with X is x-ray and and a x-ray scan is black.”
“X-rays and typical colour of text.”
The letter “X” is red because…
“Associate it with wrong or incorrect answer.”
“Buzzer.
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“I think of a xylophone and the biggest bar on a kid’s xylophone is usually red.”
“X means bad, so X is like a bad grade or you got a question wrong.”
“X means ‘mistake,’ and mistakes are red.”
“X Factor has those red buttons.”
“Use X to cross something out.”
“X marks the spot on pirate maps and it’s always in red.”
“It’s red for so many reasons. It’s like the big red X on a map. X is kind of like failure or wrong, and so is red.”
“I envision a big red X, like a buzzer that goes ‘EEEHHHHH’.”
“Red is like, ‘nope’—it’s angry and passive aggressive. So X is red.”
“I think of X as red because X can be a letter used to cross out something, and when something is wrong so we need to cross it out, we think of it as red. Failure on a test is described as red as well. ”
“An X can mean ‘no’ which is red.”
The letter “X” is grey because…
“Its really cool looking just like the color grey. I feel like it would have a very punk aesthetic revolving around the color grey if it was a human.”
“The Resident Evil enemy nicknamed Mr. X has dark grey skin.”
“Silver, actually! I think it’s my only metallic letter…”
The letter “X” is purple because…
“I imagine if a superhero’s name started with an X, their color would be purple.”
“X is an odd letter. It’s pretty much the last letter, so it’s pretty much the last color—purple.”
The letter “X” is brown because…
“There’s this kid in my class whose name is Xander and he wears a lot of brown.”
The letter “X” is yellow because…
“X from the show Battle for BFB is Yellow! A very fitting colour for the variable X.”
“X from Battle For Dream Island is yellow.”
The letter “X” is blue because…
“It’s either blue or yellow in my brain—the letter is blue and the multiplication symbol is yellow!”
The letter “X” is orange because…
“Because x is a fox. You can’t convince me otherwise.
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The letter “X” is green because…
“X reminds me of poison (chemical X), and poison is usually depicted as green. ”
The letter “X” is white because…
“Like bones in x-rays.”
“Because both white and the letter ‘X’ often represent emptiness, or the unknown.”