A plurality say the letter “X” is black. Click a color to add your vote.
The letter “X” is black because…
“X in math is the unknown, and you can’t tell what’s in the pitch dark.”
“Because of Twitter, oh wait, I mean X!”
“X is black because Twitter is X and also because when I think of X I think of death.”
“Because of the social network.”
“Think Twitter.”
“X is black because the first word that comes to my head that starts with X is x-ray and and a x-ray scan is black.”
“X-rays and typical colour of text.”
The letter “X” is red because…
“Use X to cross something out.”
“X marks the spot on pirate maps and it’s always in red.”
“It’s red for so many reasons. It’s like the big red X on a map. X is kind of like failure or wrong, and so is red.”
“I envision a big red X, like a buzzer that goes ‘EEEHHHHH’.”
“Red is like, ‘nope’—it’s angry and passive aggressive. So X is red.”
“I think of X as red because X can be a letter used to cross out something, and when something is wrong so we need to cross it out, we think of it as red. Failure on a test is described as red as well. ”
“An X can mean ‘no’ which is red.”
The letter “X” is purple because…
“X is an odd letter. It’s pretty much the last letter, so it’s pretty much the last color—purple.”
The letter “X” is blue because…
“It’s either blue or yellow in my brain—the letter is blue and the multiplication symbol is yellow!”
The letter “X” is green because…
“X reminds me of poison (chemical X), and poison is usually depicted as green. ”
The letter “X” is orange because…
“Because x is a fox. You can’t convince me otherwise.
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The letter “X” is white because…
“Because both white and the letter ‘X’ often represent emptiness, or the unknown.”
The letter “X” is yellow because…
“X from the show Battle for BFB is Yellow! A very fitting colour for the variable X.”