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I don't have synesthesia but thanks to Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), GW-BASIC, QBASIC, etc. that I encountered in the 1990s, 1 is forever going to be blue to me
by susam 4y ago
I don't have synesthesia but thanks to Color Graphics Adapter (CGA), GW-BASIC, QBASIC, etc. that I encountered in the 1990s, 1 is forever going to be blue to me, and similarly, 2 is green, 3 is cyan, 4 is red, and so on.
As a result of this childhood bias for certain integers representing certain colours, it is a bit disconcerting to me that ANSI colour escape sequences use the least significant bit to represent red rather than blue, i.e., in ANSI colours, 1 is red, 2 is green, 3 is yellow, 4 is blue, and so on.