What color is melancholy?

Melancholy is blue because…

• “Blue is a nice color. It mainly means sad, and although I feel happy looking at it, I do associate it with that gloomy, depressing feeling.”
• “Melancholy is blue because it’s a cold feeling.”
• “The word itself makes me sleepy, and sleep is blue. ”
• “Blue is sad. ‘Blue’ can be a synonym for sad. Sadness from the ‘Inside Out’ franchise is blue.”
• “Blue is sadness.”
• “Melancholy is blue because Megamind mispronounces itm and he’s blue.”
• “It’s just a sad color.”
• “Melancholy is blue because melancholy is sad and blue represents sadness.”

Melancholy is grey because…

• “Sad violin and grey filter on videos.”
• “Dull and empty of feeling. ”
• “It represents a drab, dreary day.”
• “It’s a foggy-headed, heavy kind of feeling.”
• “Melancholy reminds me of light rain on a grey and sad day.”
• “Melancholy is empty, not happy, but not sad. Grey isn’t black, but it’s not white either.”
• “Sad and dull.”
• “It’s a bland, monotonous, empty emotion.”
• “To me it’s a empty sort of color, so grey.”
• “When I think of melancholy I think of a grey storm cloud raining on somebody.”
• “Often when you feel melancholy, you feel numb, an in between, rather than fully sad. ”
• “Melancholy is the absence of colour, and the lack of willpower to commit to a pure shade. ”

Melancholy is black because…

• “While blue does represent sadness, black represents something darker and more depressing, which I believe fits ‘melancholy’ a bit more.”
• “Despair. Endless abyss.”
• “Because it’s dull and gloomy and nothing—like black.”
• “I was torn between blue and black. But while blue represents sadness, melancholy represents a deeper, more specific emotion that is far more akin to black.”
• “I feel like melancholy feels like being unable to find any figurative light or color in the moment, and black is literally the absence of light.”
• “Melancholy is like depression, and depression is black.”

Melancholy is purple because…

• “Blue is just plain sad, purple is for more complexity.”
• “Blue is sadness; purple is the next best thing for something more intricate and complex than sadness.”
• “There’s a painting called Melancholy, and it has a purplish hue. ”

Melancholy is brown because…

• “Evokes feelings of boredom, sadness, decay, and isolation. Like brown.”
• “Melancholy is brown like the blurred and wistful memories that cause it.”
• “Brown is sad and dull.”

Melancholy is orange because…

• “Like Autumn, which feels melancholy.”

Melancholy is white because…

• “White is empty like melancholy, also the word melancholy reminds me of cauliflower.”