When buying tools, how important is color for you?

I like the philosophy of buying the cheap color first and then buying the sturdier color – if the first one breaks.
- Same! I have a ton of harbor freight and Ryobi tools that work great. I've replaced a few over the years with fancier versions as they wear or break.
  
  I want a makita impact driver. Deeply. Tho that teal thrills me not at all.

The batteries that are other colours of the rainbow don't fit in my red tools so that's a big deciding factor there. As far as corded or hand tools it doesn't matter to me. Sometimes I spraypaint tools bright colours so they don't get lost as easy.
- Dad, I have somthing I've been meaning to tell you.

Colors you can differentiate from one another by type (power vs hand vs misc) and see from a distance so they hard to misplace. I use dewalt for powertools, kobalt for hand tools, and bright, but different colors for everything else e.g. pony clamps, neon craftsman levels. This makes it easy to put everything away, and spot when you are looking for them in the middle of working and you don't know where you put something. Several thumbs up for a random, but interesting question!

I always insist on colors within the visible spectrum.
- I personally prefer tools that exist in the fourth dimension. It really makes blind-hole taps a thing of the past.
- Wise.

i don't want anything to have colors on it i want it made of metal and electrocuting me constantly

I just bought an 8V USB-C chargeable drill set off AliExpress. It just happens to be bright pink. Not sure if I'm giving the right impression at the men's shed.
- Pink is fine. 8V power tools from AliExpress is not.
  
  Sounds useful as a screwdriver. I needed a low powered one to run the crank attachment on my knitting machine. It's entirely plastic and the gears inside get horribly worn if any kind of serious speed or torque is exerted on it.

I feel like it's a set up for a joke.
- One replier derived racial implications, another harry potter school houses, and politics. It's a ripe field.

My only rule for colour is that I should be able to spot it immediately if I drop it in a narrow, unlit crevice. I've got some bright red and safety orange tools.

For power tools- very important, if they're the wrong color they don't work with my batteries. I'm pretty sure that's how it works.
Otherwise, not very. Color is pretty much the last thing on my mind, weird colors are kind of a bonus so my tools can be easily identified and so they're less likely to get lost by blending in, but not a primary reason for me to buy anything.
I'm considering painting on some colored rings around the handles of some of my tools to easily identify them at a glance. Stuff that's somewhat likely to end up in a pile of similar-looking tools when I'm working with friends. Be nice to say that my hammer is the one with a purple ring around the handle or whatever.

Not at all in itself. But the blue bosch (professional grade, as opposed to the consumer grade green) is generally pretty high quality, so I stick with that lineup for tools that I need beyond the stage where any cheap brand will do.
- I do like Bosch. Tho that blue never did much for me.
  I have one of their little 12 v driver combos. Impact and drill. It's pretty sweet.
  
  Their green lineup is fine. But as someone who used to go through multiple drill batteries every day at work, I've learned to appreciate the 18V stuff. So when I needed to replace my cheap drill at home, it was a simple choice. And I later bought a circular saw, and it's nice to have interchangeable batteries and only one charger: All of my tools have their own battery, and I always have one extra in the charger that is good to go when needed.

I really like chartreuse, and am drawn to Ryobi for that reason. But I get most of my tools secondhand or as gifts, so I rarely pick.

I usually don't care what color the person that sells them to me is, but I could become concerned about their health if they have blueish or purple hues and might refuse to purchase products from people who are orange.
- You're going to have to answer to the blue man group.