Colours you dislike

I was just wondering if there are any colours that you don't like for any reason,

As for me I really hate the colour Yellow, I don't know why, I don't like bright colours, 

My all-time favourite colour is Blue,  

Do you have any colours you like and dislike? 

  • Yes, black is no colour and white is all colours as I understand it. 

  • I don't hate any colour, but I do have issues with:

    certain colour combinations, though the contexts and precise shades play a part in how intensely. The one I have in my head right now is that (to me) revulsion-inducing combination you get in daffodils of that very specific dark stemmy green and sickly yellow. Neither colour in isolation would be a problem, it's seeing that rawness of Spring's birth pains in a queasy combination that it's hard to make 'eye contact' with. Nearly that time of year again, I shall miss winter as always. With its tastelful muting of colour splashes and greater sympathy to my being more optically soothed by a world of subtler tones and softened hues. 

    Needing my home environment to have warm colours - all part of a vital cosiness. A nice warm grey is simultaneously like a needed eye-bath once home from the sensory overoad of 'out there' and just a way to feel softly warmed rather than cooled by my living space. . I can appreciate other environments and things suiting blue (which can even look curiously warm with enough saturation), and after all I wouldn't change a thing about the now-definitive colour for a police box. 

    Artificial rainbows. The real ones look just fine as nature knows how to make them subtly shaded, with each 'band' in its right order, translucent,  and phased into at the edges. But ones where a child, for instance, has just taken marker pens and jamed umpteen contrastive colours one against another in a random oeder... that just hits my optic nerves all wrong. They were inescapable during Lockdown, with one shoved in every window (all in a good cause, I do realise!). Many good causes - eg. LGBT advocacy- have (for understandable symbolic reasons) rainbows, and so my slight recoil at the colour aesthetics ultimately matters not one jot against the societal progress being made and the structural inevitability of that spectrum embodiment being the best way to say (importantly, if garishly) all are welcome. Long may my eyes be mildly inconvenienced if it helps us keep going forward as a progressive and inclusive society. :-)

  • I don't like bright colours like fluorescent. I like to wear  shades of brown and pink. The thing I hate most with colours is when two beside each other don't go together, like scarlet and pale green and light tones of green and blue.

  • There was a high profile Guinness advert with Rutger Hauer when I was in my teens. He was dressed all in black with his blond hair on top to match a pint of Guinness.

    As a result I spent a while being called the Guinness Man Joy

  • I can't picture it at all, and even when drawn it makes no sense beyond, 'yes its a triangle' and statistics totally boggles me, if somebody sat me down and drew a triangle and tried to explain it's properties to me, it's like they're speaking a foreign language. I don't know what a drawing scheme is, I try and avoid drawing anything other than a bath, as anything I draw comes out looking like a Picasso on acid.

  • I did have problems with algebra. Anything that is abstract and can’t be pictured is a grey wall for me too. But unlike my other colleagues I was doing excellent with geometry and also statistics because you can picture it. Drawing schemes etc was my favorite thing. 

  • Maybe you should look up synesthesia, it's really interesting and not a lot is known about it, I suspect because it's so hard for people to get their heads around if they don't experience it. I've been surprised when I've found out others don't percieve the world the same way I do, the way that every word has a visual image and if tthey don't "match" I don't understand it, I think it's why I struggle with poetry, the images don't match. For me maths is an inpenetrable thick grey wall with no texture, no begining and no end in any direction, there's no holds for my mind to grasp and explore this space, its like teflon my mind just slides off and feels battered and bruised by attempting to get some kind of grap of it.. Algorhythms are crocdile like, green, brown and snappy, fierce and uncompromising. Tech in general is like a grey, brown vomit puddle, repulsive and stinky, somewhere to gross to explore.

  • I Imagine you and I think you must look really good in your black and dark blue! I also like black but in pair with other colors. For example grey,  silver, beige or gold. 

  • Black is my favourite colour (or is it the absence of colour?).

    Almost everything I wear is either black or very dark blue and my house is mostly black furniture with off white walls.

    I have always wanted to wear red because I think it would suit my colouring (pale with blond hair).

    I dislike most greens and am not a fan of yellow.

  • For me brown does not taste like chocolate, more like a coffee. Yes, coffee is brown. For me not only colors have these tastes, also numbers 5- raspberry, 7- apples, 9&10 blueberry, 2- banana, 1- watermelon. Geography tastes something like a dill and smells like fresh grass, math is cold and fresh like ice, English is fresh cold and minty. German is salty and crispy, Russian is bitter and a bit sweet sour. Many things at work taste. For example when I have a can of paint in my hands, I taste wept cream, wood tastes like nuts, small plastic bags with something inside like a green cabbage. I touch it and I taste it. Now it’s funny and pleasant but at school it was super hard as the sensation was more intense and I had to use much more energy to concentrate to ignore these tastes and smells I felt there. Solving a math equation often felt like a fruit plate in my mouth. And additionally I was slower to pick and process things so I was endlessly told I have to try harder and it was never enough. I don’t know if synesthesia is a diagnosis, I don’t have one, but some time ago I red about it and was surprised that it’s not “normal” that others don’t perceive things same as me. 

  • Interesting, my daughter has synesthesia, but to her brown for example wouldn't taste of chocolate but something totally random like curtains, her's isn't associative.

  • To me colors often taste like fruits that have these colors so pink to me tastes like raspberry, green like apple, orange like an orange yellow like a lemon tee, red like a watermelon or tomato (depends which shade) so I love all colors 

  • Isn't it odd how many people really dislike green? I know some people think it's an unlucky colour especially for cars, but I've found it a lucky colour when buying cars as I get a good deal.

    Pink seem to be a bit marmite too, but I think pink should be divided into hot and bright, from Barbie to margenta and soft pinks. I remember watching some how to sell you house program years ago and the woman doing it often advised people to tone down their colour scheme, she said a neutral colour is any colour without intensity, I've always remebered that, especially for clothes and furnishings, stay neutral and keep intense colours as accents for things like scarves and cushions.

  • I don’t like dark colours like blacks or greys I love bright happy colours. My favourite colour is pink. 

  • I particularly like russets, maroon and buttery yellows. I dislike pink and most varieties of purple.

  • I mostly wear blue too, International Klein Blue is my favourite colour, I can stare at it for ages.
    Most colours I don't mind but I think there is something for me too about how colours are put together e.g. I have to walk straight through a room of Rothko paintings as the way he puts two colours together I find really disturbing but each colour on it's own would be ok.

  • I love all colors, but there are some pairs of colors that make me shiver for example blue+red (very often used for logos etc) 

  • yes! yellow also! and green! hate them! favourite colours - black - most of my clothes are black. and also have an unhealthy fixation with hot pink - which is why watching the Barbie movie over and over was utter bliss!

  • Emerald Green is my favorite colour or chlorophyll green, they seem to have a calming effect on me

  • For some reason turquoise makes me feel sick