What color is the number one?

The number one is red because…

• “Anything first is red. I can’t explain why red is the first colour, it just is. Maybe because of ROYGBIV. Like Monday, the number one, first place ribbons...”
• “The number one is red because it’s the first color, and the color of first place ribbons.”
• “It’s the first color of the rainbow.”
• “Red is the first color.”
• “Red is the first color languages develop a word for after light and dark.”
• “Because it is the first color in the rainbow. ”
• “It’s primary.”
• “The Red Ranger is always the team leader.”
• “Red is first in ROYGBIV.”
• “It’s the first color in the rainbow!”
• “Red is associated with primitive, passionate and impulsive emotions. It makes sense to be picked first.”
• “Everyone wants to be number one and everyone wants to be on fire, so if you’re #1 then you’re on fire, so you’re red.”
• “Numberblocks.”
• “Because it is the first color and the first number.”
• “The rainbow starts with red, and the numbers start with one! (Technically zero starts the numbers, but zero is white because it’s nothing.)”
• “It’s the first number which is also the first color in the rainbow”
• “It’s the first color of the rainbow.”
• “In my classroom as a child, one was always red in posters and such, so I believe red makes the most sense as the colour for number one.”
• “‘He was number one!’–Spongebob ”
• “Red is the first color in the rainbow, and 1 from numberblocks.”
• “It’s the first colour. ”

The number one is blue because…

• “Blue ribbon—first place!”
• “one bfdi how do i subtmit”
• “Because ‘one’ is a generic boy and blue is a generic boy color.”
• “One from Minesweeper and TPOT is blue.”
• “Thomas the train.”
• “One from TPOT is blue.”

The number one is black because…

• “Zero is white, so one is black. ”
• “One is the loneliest number.”
• “It’s boring.”

The number one is white because…

• “One is the purest number, and white is a pure colour.”
• “It makes me think of a teacher writing with chalk.”

The number one is yellow because…

• “I think of first place and the number one metal is gold, which is close to yellow.”
• “Number one means being first place, which is associated with a gold medal, which is yellow.”
• “Yellow/gold because new beginnings and first place!”

The number one is purple because…

• “Purple has a l in it, and that looks like a one. ”

The number one is orange because…

• “The number 1 is orange because #1 medals are made out of gold which is a bit like orange.”