Of these, which is your favorite color for a tool?

Milktree - you win! You are the weirdest of them all!

how many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? i generally like my tools to be the color of steel, because that's what i usually like them to be made of. i make exceptions for things like rawhide mallets and wooden spoons.

I like the blue of a Makita cordless power drill myself.

Black

I like black. Much harder to see the drill-press coming at you at night...

Topper wraps two different colors of duct tape around tools to identify which are hers. I think that's a great idea. If we're talking power tools, I have a hard enough time using them that I prefer colors that don't distract me from the job I'm trying to do.

WTF?

Makita tools are that cool bluish color. I rather like that.

lara:

The ones that are clear plastic, doesn't matter what colour but usually it's yellow so that's what I put.

For a tool? Which tool? Well, I like red-caramel screwdrivers, but don't know why...

no- I *used* to wrap two colors of tape around them (orange and red, check your tool room then return my tools, please) but then I learned that eventually you get gummy-gooey tape stuff on your hands- yuck- and have to clean all your tools with noxious crap - yuck again. Now I use red and orange nail polish- still yuck, but you only get one yuck for your buck, not two.

That depends. I have one tool I prefer in flesh color. ;)

I said neon ... I think that would be cool to have tools with gas-filled handles - that would make them MUCH easier to find in the dark... good ol' neon ...

It depends on the tool, but I usually prefer my tools to be traditionally coloured (chrome, grey and black are good). That is, things like screwdrivers and table saws. (ref. the "Tools vs Toys" survey . This is in stark contrast with my clothes and hang gliding equipment (my harness is mainly "Pink pink pink!" with bits of other very brights colors here and there)

I prefer wooden finish on those with wood parts

I like black or bright. :)

Tools by nature need to black. Black is cool. Tools are cool. In order for tools to be fully cool, they need to be black. It's all simple logic.

For a tool? What kind of tool exactly? Well, if I think of the tools I have, I think black or silver is a great color. Pink... ugh, who invented that color anyways?

um.. yellow? screwdrivers need to be easily seen.. for something like a saw, it'd look silly. it depends on the tool

I kind of like the concept of pink, but black tools are just sexier.

The color of a tool isn't important to me.