A plurality say uncertainty is grey. Click a color to add your vote.
Uncertainty is grey because…
“The middle ground of ‘black-and-white’ issues is usually known as the grey area, giving the color an overall sense of uncertainty.”
“Grey is a neutral color. When you’re uncertain, you’re neutral.”
“The opposite of uncertainty is certainty. If you are certain about something, it is an absolute yes or no—absolutely black, or absolutely white, with nothing in between. Gray is between black and white, between yes and no. Gray is the in-between color: the color of uncertainty.”
“Uncertainty is like a fog that obscures the future.”
“Gray is the in-between of black and white. White, the color of truth and sincerity, and black, the color of sorrow and deceit.”
“If you’re uncertain your mind might be clouded grey.”
“Gray is like a color of blank, or in other words, emptiness, and uncertainty is like your head is empty.”
“It’s a grey area!”
Uncertainty is orange because…
“Uncertainty is orange because it’s not fully red and it’s not fully yellow either. ”
“It just gives that uneasy feeling.”
“It’s the color that I think of when I think of anxiety, and uncertainty causes anxiety.”
“It’s not red, because you know it’s not necessarily wrong, but you aren’t entirely sure its right either. So orange.”
Uncertainty is purple because…
“Purple represents fear, and I associate uncertainty with fear.”
“If you’re uncertain you’re probably confused, and confusion is purple.”
“I had to do an art project for school, and the theme was feelings and colors. I chose purple and uncertainty, because purple felt like a mysterious tone.”
“It’s a color that doesn’t exist in nature very often—you don’t know what to expect when you see it.
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“Because it’s a very uncommon and it’s the colour of a face in anime when they don’t know what to choose.
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Uncertainty is brown because…
“When you add a bunch of colors because you can’t choose, you get brown.”
“I am uncertain why uncertainty is brown.”
Uncertainty is black because…
“Uncertainty is black because feeling uncertain feels like being in the dark.”
“Black reminds me of the void, which is full of uncertainty.”
“Your thoughts are scattered into a void.”
Uncertainty is yellow because…
“Associated with caution sign, used to color-code data when prediction is 60–70% confident.”
“Yellow is the middle ground of a stoplight when you have to decide if you’re going to make it through the light or wait at the red.”
Uncertainty is white because…
“Because of someone turning ‘white as a sheet’ when they’re the nervous or scared.”
“It’s not really a colour and fog is white and fog equals uncertainty.”
Uncertainty is green because…
“As a comic nerd myself, I thought of the man himself: Riddler.”
Uncertainty is pink because…
“Pink is very youthful to me, and uncertainty makes you feel like a lost kid.”
“It is timid.”
Uncertainty is red because…
“I’m uncertain it’s red.”
Uncertainty is blue because…
“I feel like blue is very vague, can be of plenty different energies, where other colors are more defined.”
“Blue is like deep water. You don’t know what’s below the surface.”
“Uncertainty is blue because it is often associated with sadness, and sadness is blue.”