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The 7 colors of the week | And why Wednesday is light blue

So it turns out I am what they call a synesthete.

Jonathan Fors
2 min readJul 7, 2020
A clear turquise blue sky with paper white houses beneath
Can’t remember where I shot this image, probably on vacation somewhere. But the sky is most definitely as blue as Wednesday.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday…

You know those moments when something you have always thought to be completely normal and something everyone does turn out to be completely unique to you? Well, I just had one of those moments.

At the time of writing this sentence, it is Yellow… or as most people would call it; Tuesday.

Now, what the fudge am I on about? Well as I tend to do in my spare time I was browsing Reddit and came across this post titled something along the likes of “Why do I see days as colors?”. My immediate reaction was “Hey I do too!”, and so I naturally clicked on it to continue reading. In the post this anonymous person perfectly described what I have always done; categorizing colors as days… or days as colors. But it wasn’t until the moment of reading the comment section that I was starting to realize perhaps I wasn’t that ordinary after all. For the curious one, it went something like this: “What are you on about lmao??”.

Now before continuing what you have to understand is that I’ve always thought of color grading the week as something each one of us…

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Jonathan Fors
Jonathan Fors

Written by Jonathan Fors

Life is unexpectedly fun, and sometimes goes to shit but that’s the best part. So just enjoy it.

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