What color is down?

A plurality say down is black.
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“The further down you go the darker it gets until it becomes black.”
“Down is black because darkness is typically associated with negative emotions.”
“Down is black because if you are feeling down you are upset, and all the bad things can start crowding your head making everything seem dark and eventually just black.”
“Because holes are down and holes are black.”
“It becomes darker as you go down the colour spectrum.”
“Down is black because things go darker the lower you go.”
“When you are standing on a cliff and look down, it is dark and a bottomless pit.”
“Endless void, and things naturally get darker the lower you go.”
“Arrows are usually represented in black, I guess.”
“Dark colors have visually greater mass.”

“Down means sad. Dad is blue.”
“Because down is another way to say sad, and blue is sad.”
“Down is blue because feeling down is feeling sad. Feeling blue means you’re feeling sad.”
“When you feel down or sad, you say you’re feeling blue.”
“Down is blue because it’s at the bottom of the colour wheel. ”
“Water is there if you dig down deep enough.”
“Red is up, so down is blue. Also, the word ‘down’ is similar to the word ‘drown,’ and drowning happens in water, which is blue.”
“Blue reminds me of dangling at the top of a rollercoaster and the subsequent freefall down!”
“Rain and sadness both fall.”

“Wander outside, and look down—the grass is green and the earth is brown.”
“It’s dark, but not so much as black. Just a gentle coating of shadow as you drift into the abyss.”
“Dig down and you find brown dirt.”
“It’s a grounding direction and color.”
“Dirt is down.”
“When you dig down a hole, you are surrounded by the brown dirt.”
“Down and brown rhyme, so down has to be brown!”
“Dirt.”
“Dig. I dig for hours, yet I find no end. All I see is brown. Please help me.”
“When I look down, there’s dirt and mud.”
“Down is brown because down is ground and ground is brown.”
“It’s the colour of the ground and dirt (which is beneath us); it’s a dark and dull colour which reminds me of the murky below.”
“Up is sky and down is earth, so brown.”
“Down to the ground, into the dirt below us. ”

“The earth’s mantle is below us, and it is represented by the color red.”
“Because red is bad.”
“Hmm, I associate up with blue... so the opposite of blue?”
“In charts, downward trends are often shown in red.”
“Blue is up, like the color of the sky, so red or orange would be the opposite.”
“Reddit downvotes are red.”

“When we were little, we drew the sky blue and the grass green, so up is blue and down is green. ”
“Grass.”
“Down is green because you walk on grass.”

“It really depends on the meaning. Down the direction is brown-yellow. Down the fluff is blue-yellow. Down the landscape is white-yellow. These are not combinations or patterns—they’re the closest I can get to a real colour that exists.”