Color associations

[boar]

I noticed recently that the 6 ability scores in D&D associate very strongly with particular colors in my mind. Strength is red, dexterity yellow, constitution brown, intelligence blue, wisdom light pink, and charisma white. I suspect I picked up these associations from a video game or a book, but can't for the life of me remember what it was. Does anyone know where this color mapping might have come from? Am I alone?

 

[Mercule]

I can't say it's ever really crossed my mind, that I can recall. I'm not sure those are the colors I'd pick, but they seem reasonable.

 

[Wik]

Weird. To each their own, but it never would occur to me. Why is wisdom light pink?

 

[boar]

Weird. To each their own, but it never would occur to me. Why is wisdom light pink?

Hard to say. It's kind of rosy -- like the brain, I guess?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not sure, but you may have just ushered in the Age of Acid-Enhanced Live Action Role Playing Games (AAELARPGs)!

I don't know of any such color-mapping, myself, and I'm not sure I'd go for the way you've assigned them...except Str.

Were I designing a game with color-mapping in mind, I'd probably go for a ROYGBIV model, though I'd have to find a 7th stat: "Power" perhaps?

 

[Hairfoot]

Sounds like you're a bit kinaesthetic, which is awesome.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Sounds like you're a bit kinaesthetic, which is awesome.

I was going to say the same thing....
Question, do also equate sound with color and do have musical abilities of some sort?

 

[Byronic]

Sounds like you're a bit kinaesthetic, which is awesome.

Are you sure you don't mean synaesthesia?

In any case do you associate other things with colours? Like numbers or other words? It would be peculiar if it were just those 6.

 

[Ainamacar]

The first thing I thought after synaesthesia was ioun stones. But those color mappings don't match your own, at least in 3.5.

 

[Jhaelen]

I just associate them with the colour spectrum, sice it looks nice on a char sheet:
STR - red
CON - orange
DEX - yellow
WIS - green
INT - blue
CHA - violet

Note, that I changed the order of the stats.

What is interesting to me, is that I'd always use 'warm' colours (red, orange, yellow) for the physical stats (STR, DEX, CON) and 'cold' colours (green, blue, violet) for the mental stats (INT, WIS, CHA).