What color is hostility?

Hostility is red because…

• “It’s a strong, aggressive and alarming color.”
• “It’s the color of blood and fire, two things associated with aggressiveness.”
• “Red, angry, stay away.”
• “Red is usually associated with scary and bad. It is also the color of blood.”
• “Red is violence and violence is hostility. ”
• “Red is intense and scary.”
• “Just a fancy word for violence, and violence is just a fancy word for fight, and fight is just a fancy word for harm, and we all agree that harm is red, right? So hostility should be red too.”
• “Hostile mobs in videogames are usually red.”
• “Red is anger and loudness, and hostility is kind of like that.”
• “Aggression and anger are heated and explosive.”
• “Hostility is aggressive and angry, both of which are also red. It’s a warning/danger sign.”
• “It’s the color of anger.”
• “Anger is red.”
• “It’s anger and hatred. ”
• “Hostility is aggressive and angry, and red represents both of these.”
• “Red is violent, the colour of blood.”

Hostility is black because…

• “Hostility feels closer to malevolence and hatred than it does to anger or fury. While anger is a burning, fleeting feeling, hostility lingers and feels more dark and malicious than being angry.”
• “It happens in the streets and alleys, and they’re pitch dark, so black.”

Hostility is yellow because…

• “It’s bright and jarring.”

Hostility is purple because…

• “Purple is the colour used to represent poison, unpleasantness, and malevolence.”

Hostility is grey because…

• “Heartless and cold, like grey. ”

Hostility is brown because…

• “It is the color of muddied thoughts, and humans don’t think very clearly when mad.”
• “Nobody is ever nice to the color brown.”
• “Because of hostile animals like bears, which are brown.”