What color is the year 2020?

The year 2020 is green because…

• “Green is seen as a sickly color: the color of vomit, the color of infection, the color of gross things. And 2020, you know?”
• “Sickness.”
• “Covid is green. ”
• “Disease.”
• “Cough, cough, cough.”
• “Corona virus.”
• “Green is germs, and COVID contains a lot of germs... ”
• “Isn’t the covid bacteria itself colored green? And if not, the emoji and videos about it made me sure think that.”
• “Sickness.”
• “Sickness.”
• “Sickness.”

The year 2020 is blue because…

• “Most of the masks were blue.”
• “Blue because of the masks. And blue feels like quarantine.”
• “A lot of medical equipment is blue, like blue masks, blue gloves, and blue scrubs. ”
• “Because when I think of the masks, I think blue.”
• “A lot of these are because of the pandemic, but the truth is its just blue for me because of the combination of the 2 and the 0.”
• “Mostly because 2 is blue, but also a lot of the health signs were blue, and I associate hospitals and masks with blue.”
• “Blue surgical masks.”
• “Because the number 20 is blue and health is blue.”
• “CDC.gov”

The year 2020 is black because…

• “It was depressing.”
• “Come on, this one’s obvious.”
• “2020 is one of the worst years we’ve endured as a species, and a large part of the year, and its fallout, was spent in mourning for all that was lost.”
• “The world went dark from the pandemic.”

The year 2020 is red because…

• “Lots and lots of chaos.”
• “2020 was the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Covid is dangerous, and danger is red.”
• “Because red is anger and everyone was angry during the pandemic.”
• “Because that year was intense and angry and panicked.”
• “Everything around you is on fire.”
• “Emergency. ”
• “Covid-19 is red and that’s the only thing that happened.”
• “COVID has red spikes, so it represents 2020 with COVID-19 and the pandemic.”
• “Covid. ”
• “The color of the animated COVID-19 virus on the news. ”
• “I see red as doom or threatening. And that was basically all of 2020.”

The year 2020 is grey because…

• “Isolation. Grey, empty walls. Hospitals. Cloudy days. ”
• “The world lost its colors after the pandemic. ”
• “Grey is bleak, and that year was very bleak.”
• “Life became grey in 2020 due to the lockdown.”
• “It was an abyss of tragedy and woe.”
• “It was dull, being locked inside.”

The year 2020 is yellow because…

• “I image that the number 20 is yellow, so a year with two 20s would be an obnoxiously bright yellow.”

The year 2020 is purple because…

• “It was quiet but not relaxed, tense but with no one to fight. A lot of good mixed in with so much bad... so much confusion and anxiety, but so calm at the same time.”
• “Purple is a colour that I find is most common indoors, save for maybe purple flowers. The lockdown forced people inside, and I imagine a dusty, reddish purple when I imagine the pandemic.”
• “The year 2020 is purple because that was when Covid-19 was, and a virus symbol is sometimes purple.”

The year 2020 is orange because…

• “Orange is ugly, and 2020 was ugly.”
• “For me, viruses are a sickly orange.”
• “Orange is the color of a dumpster fire.”

The year 2020 is brown because…

• “Because it was a sh*tty year.”

The year 2020 is white because…

• “I was thinking of masks.”
• “The blandness of the covid quarantine feels white to me.”
• “Masks, emptiness, Kleenex, cleanliness...”
• “White represents solidarity, which the pandemic gave rise to.”