#(I prefer to use the u despite being American because it's uh more... swooshy? than color.)

[verdantglow]

ahhhhhhh I also have synesthesia! Mine is associative, so I don't actually perceive the colours of numbers & letters; it's more like my brain fills out inappropriate fields in the files for various things. It's also not super consistent in strength. Like most numbers & letters have the colour field filled out, but only some of them have the colours listed in their file previews? So while I don't always immediately think "black" when I think of 5, if I open the file & actually ask myself what colour 5 is, I know that it's black.

Anyway, point being, of the numbers with their colours listed highest on their file previews, 7, 3, & 6 are definitely up there. & 7 has always also been green for me (more of a pine green though) & 3 is yellow & 6 is like a marigold orange colour. (9 is a strong true orange.)

I love hearing how other people with synesthesia experience things & looking at similarities & differences between people's associations/perceptions. It's hella fascinating.

You have synesthesia?? How does that work for you? Is this how you manage to use the word “meat” in a way that makes me go “holy shit that’s good and cool i need to read that sentence four more times” instead of “ew”?????

I do!!! Letters, numbers, and words all have colours and sometimes visual textures for me-- and while numbers and letters on their own are generally only a single colour (7 is a bright, grassy green!!! while "K" is a pale peachy pink, for example :] ), when i put them into words they often take on entirely new colours, some of which even bleed into each other like watercolour paints. Ironically, its why i use the UK spelling of "colour" in the first place-- the "u" turns what looks like a dull, desaturated blue into a smeared blue-and-purple that i find really pretty to look at :]] so when i say i like to paint with words, i kinda mean that literally 😂😂😂😂😂

But yeah, i'd imagine thats why my writing is Like That™ to some degree-- a lot of what im doing behind the scenes involves matching the colours and visual textures of a given word with all of the others in order to evoke a particular vibe or image in my writing. There are a lot of layers to how i write, but this is probably the one that takes both the most time AND is the one i happen to talk about the least WKDJWKSJEJ