A plurality say the number nine is purple. Click a color to add your vote.
The number nine is purple because…
“This is a very recent association. The first boss in Minesweeper Plus has a purple number 9 on it.”
“9 is mysterious, elegant, and regal. It deserves the color purple.”
“Purple is an obscure color and is usually shown after all the main colors are shown. 1-8 would have already taken all the more ‘normal’ colors, and since 9 is the end of the main numbers, I think it deserves purple.”
“Nine is a mysterious number, and purple is a mysterious color.”
“Curvy and twisty and quirky and silly.”
The number nine is black because…
“In Japanese culture, nine represents death and it’s considered an unlucky number as the pronunciation of it, ‘ku,’ is similar to the pronunciation of agony or torture.”
“Numbers are black for me in general. They remind me to my time in school when I had maths and the numbers in the book were all written in black.”
“Well, it’s either purple or black. And it can’t be purple because 8 is already purple. ”
The number nine is red because…
“Seven eight nine, so it’s a little bloody.”
“I feel like nine would be angry and red because seven at nine.”
“Red is kind of urgent, and nine is REALLY close to ten.”
“Nine is red because if you were to rate a person a 9/10, they would tend to be confident, likable, and popular, like the color red.
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The number nine is orange because…
“9 is orange, just like all prime numbers are pink, and twin primes smell like gasoline.”
“The ‘N’ in Nine reminds me of neon orange.”
The number nine is green because…
“I immediately thought of Tim Burton’s 9.”
“Nine is green and tangy.”
The number nine is grey because…
“Nine gives office worker vibes, so I chose grey because that’s the color of a secretary lady’s hair whom I met when I was four. She gave me crackers. ”
“In BFDI, Nine is physically grey. Like, actually.”
“Numberblock 9 is gray. Plus, after red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and full rainbow, the next color is gray.”
The number nine is brown because…
“I don’t like the number, so I paired it with my least favorite color!”
“Black is for 10, the final color in the 1-10 scale, and in martial arts, brown is typically the last color before black belt, and 9 is the final color before 10, so it gets the second to last color.”
“It gives off tree trunk vibes, and it’s also very huggable because it looks like a person.”