A plurality say the number twenty is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
The number twenty is blue because…
“20 is blue because 2 is blue and any number starting with 2 that ends in a zero is blue.”
“2 is blue!”
“2 is blue, 0 is black, but it is mostly a dark blue.”
“The number 2 is blue, and in my mind, the color of the starting number for any 2-digit number is the color of the whole thing. But for 3 digits or beyond, only the first number has a color and the rest are black or white.”
“The 2 in 20 is blue and overrides the white in 0.”
The number twenty is red because…
“For me, any number that’s divisible by 5 or 2 is warm, so red.”
“I associate it with tomatoes, for some reason.”
“Twenty is so basic a number that it cannot be anything else than a basic color.”
“It represents the bold colors during the ‘Roaring Twenties.’”
The number twenty is orange because…
“Two is orange, so so is twenty.”
“The number 20 is orange because of the ‘tw’ sound at the beginning.”
“It just feels orange to me; if someone tells me to picture the number in my head, I picture it as orange.”
The number twenty is purple because…
“20 is a decent bit into counting, and I feel like purple is one of the later colors I’d think of.
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The number twenty is green because…
“20 dollar bill , duh.”
“Green enough, a round and clean number.”
The number twenty is black because…
“All numbers are black which is because math makes many people sad, and black is sad for me.”
“Didn’t we all come to an agreement that 10 is black, or, I mean, a ‘plurality says that 10 is black’, and 20 is 10x2, so why can’t it just be like we reuse the rainbow? 1 is red, 11 is red, 10 is black, 20 should be black as well. Plus, if you don’t like the reusing the rainbow—reduce, reuse, and recycle!”
“More like a navy blue. Very mature. Very well rounded.”
The number twenty is pink because…
“Because 2 is pink and 0 is white”
“I associate 20 with pink because I saw 20 pink flowers today.”
The number twenty is grey because…
“Anything with zero is grey. In most cases, the first digit cancels that grey out, but the blue in the 2 just isn’t strong enough.”