What color is melancholy?

Melancholy is blue because…

• “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…

• “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…

• “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…

• “There’s a painting called Melancholy, and it has a purplish hue. ”

Melancholy is brown because…

• “Melancholy is brown like the blurred and wistful memories that cause it.”
• “Brown is sad and dull.”

Melancholy is white because…

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