What color is desolation?

Desolation is black because…

• “Black is the absence of colour. Desolation is emptiness.”
• “It is the feeling of emptiness, and black is devoid of all colour.”
• “Desolation is a state of complete emptiness, and black is the lack of color.”
• “Emptiness.”
• “Black is nothing.”

Desolation is grey because…

• “It’s bleak, it’s dreary, but you can still see when you’re in it, and you’re still alive, even if barely. Death is black; there’s nothing left, no chance at all. You can’t see in death.”
• “Other colors are too bright, black is too full, white is too clear; grey is appropriately smoky and bleak.”
• “Desolation is gray because it’s hopeless and barren. It represents bleakness and destruction, but not necessarily the blackness of despair. Desolation is represented by the grayness of smoke, of a dark city on a foggy night.”
• “Grey is just empty. It’s neither here nor there, it’s just bland.”
• “In art, white is the absence of color, and black is the combination of all color. In science, black is the removal of all color and light, and white is the full color spectrum as light. Gray is a compromise of both. ”
• “It shows devastation—there is no light, no darkness, no color, just emptiness. ”
• “Ash.”
• “Gray is empty whereas black is endless.”
• “Empty and bleak.”
• “I imagine crumbling grey concrete.”
• “It’s so much nothing that it’s not even dark or light. It just is.”
• “It’s lifeless.”
• “Rubble, steel, and concrete. The end times. Desolation. Grey.”

Desolation is brown because…

• “It’s just dirt; everything else is gone and nothing is growing or alive.”
• “Desert.”

Desolation is blue because…

• “Blue is sad. ”
• “Melancholy and loneliness. ”

Desolation is yellow because…

• “I’m thinking of a desolate desert, and deserts have lots of yellow sand.”