What Colours are the Nations?

In my work I tend to use spreadsheets a lot, and I use multiple FFXIV-based spreadsheets (either made by myself or others) to track things like coil progress, sightseeing, fishing and achievements. I also tend to colour code a lot. Like, all the members of my FC have a colour that I associate with them in a somewhat synesthesia-like way. I also have colours for all the nations, but have noticed in some spreadsheets others make who use colour coding, that they use different colours to me, so I thought I'd ask the question, what colours come to mind when you think of each nation? For me:

La Noscea = Bright Red. - because of the Maelstrom Banner. Before GCs were introduced back in 1.0 Limsa was blue to me because of the sea.
Thanalan =Yellow-Gold - because of the desert sand. Even though the GC banner is predominantly black, I can't think of them other than some variant of yellow to brown.
Shroud = Forest Green - because of the foliage of trees. The GC banner actually annoys me because yellow = Thanalan.
Coerthas = Light Blue - because of ice/snow. In 1.0 to me, Coerthas was the lavender of the background colour in the Ishgard crest but the change in weather changed the colour for me.
Mor Dhona = Violet-Purple - because of gloom weather effect. In 1.0 It was still purple, but more red-based shades compared to Coerthas' blue-based purples, though often I would group the two together.

I also think of the nations in that order as it places the colours in a rainbow-chromatic order which pleases me. I don’t have strong thought-colours for other places. The Garlean Empire sometimes feels gunmetal grey, sometimes white and other times dried-blood red. Ala Mhigo is also very faint but somewhere in the yellow to ochre range, a little like Thanalan but leaning more to orange hues. I have no thought-colour for Doma or Sharalyan.

So do you associate colours with countries? What colours are the nations to you? Or am I just proving to the world once again how wierd my brain is -.-

I just use the PvP & Officer outfit colors

Maelstrom / LL - Red
Flames / Ul'd - Blue
Adders / Grid - Yellow

It's even more confusing now, because in the latest story update, there's a new group (based out of Mor Dhona) that's also blue, just a deeper shade.

I like your colors better though (those are the colors I used to associate with them as well, for the same reasons).

Maelstrom, red and black. Adders, yellow and green. Flames, gold..black..red..dark blue.. we're the dark rainbow XD.
Edit: I skipped Ishgard and revenants .. So white (snow, and a holy empire) and purple (cause I always think of Dodore and the weather type back in 1.0 lol)

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

In my work I tend to use spreadsheets a lot, and I use multiple FFXIV-based spreadsheets (either made by myself or others) to track things like coil progress, sightseeing, fishing and achievements. I also tend to colour code a lot. Like, all the members of my FC have a colour that I associate with them in a somewhat synesthesia-like way. I also have colours for all the nations, but have noticed in some spreadsheets others make who use colour coding, that they use different colours to me, so I thought I'd ask the question, what colours come to mind when you think of each nation? For me:

La Noscea = Bright Red. - because of the Maelstrom Banner. Before GCs were introduced back in 1.0 Limsa was blue to me because of the sea.
Thanalan = Yellow-Gold - because of the desert sand. Even though the GC banner is predominantly black, I can't think of them other than some variant of yellow to brown.
Shroud = Forest Green - because of the foliage of trees. The GC banner actually annoys me because yellow = Thanalan.
Coerthas = Light Blue - because of ice/snow. In 1.0 to me, Coerthas was the lavender of the background colour in the Ishgard crest but the change in weather changed the colour for me.
Mor Dhona = Violet-Purple - because of gloom weather effect. In 1.0 It was still purple, but more red-based shades compared to Coerthas' blue-based purples, though often I would group the two together.

I also think of the nations in that order as it places the colours in a rainbow-chromatic order which pleases me. I don’t have strong thought-colours for other places. The Garlean Empire sometimes feels gunmetal grey, sometimes white and other times dried-blood red. Ala Mhigo is also very faint but somewhere in the yellow to ochre range, a little like Thanalan but leaning more to orange hues. I have no thought-colour for Doma or Sharalyan.

So do you associate colours with countries? What colours are the nations to you? Or am I just proving to the world once again how wierd my brain is -.-

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Your not weird at all :)

I think you have a very creative mind. To answer your question, I typically associate themes with the nations rather than colors.

La Noscea = Pirates, manly men, Pirates, fresh sea air, Jack Sparrow
Thanalan = Aladdin, too damn hot, walk like an Egyptian lalafell, ...sand
Shroud = Robin Hood (the movie where he was a cartoon fox), Peace&love, Bronies (don't know why), ...kale I guess?
Coerthas = Dragons (duh), "One does not simply walk into Behemoth's dominion," Frozen, umm...Snow cones? (yummy)
Mor Dhona = Crystals, Researcher nobody helps, "Stupid Allag stone cap!," cute lalafell miner.

Oh the Crystal Braves -.- that blue colour, while very pretty, just isn't purple. I don't think they have a crest yet. I wonder what it would look like.

And I like the concept of themes, but my mind seems to prefer numbers and colours