What colors do you DISLIKE?

OP, I break the DL R1 rule by saying this is the greatest thread opener of all time.

Or do I?

I don't like that pink, either, OP. I'd prefer something much lighter.

The colors I don't like are orange and brown.

This one.

I mean, every gosh-darned month.

Hate red and fuschia.

Really, this suite, and not just because the namer obviously doesn't know what any variety of chive, fresh or dried, looks like. "Dishonest greens" that mock the chlorophyll!

My hatred for red is quite well-known among my family.

I loathe the UPS truck color. Colorblind. I can't tell if it is green or brown.

Gray. I call it "Black for Cowards."

Orange.

Maple-Furniture Brown. Hate it!

sounds weird but, blue of any variety except very dark blue. I find it cold and depressing.

Ochre. It goes with so few useful colors, and leads one into an overreliance on tacky Earth tones.

Taupe because I loathe Poi.

I eat blue.

On the other hand, Skobeloff is a tasteful color. It's refined, yet masculine.

OP here. Surprised people hate red. I love red. Chinese red is one of my favorites.

Agree with the hating fuschia though. I guess I have a problem with pink.

Yeah red is one of my favorites, especially dark red. But then again everyone says blue is their favorite and I mostly hate it.

Orange

griege - if grey is too strong for you. So neutral.... so dull

Like red, not a big fan of pink

I dislike purple. I noticed that people who like purple really go nuts over it, e.g., Prince.

I also dislike the '70s colors: mustard yellow, olive green, and brown. Especially bad when all combined.

Those 90s jewel tone colors. Teal, forest green, mustard yellow, purply burgundy

Overly bright colors, red and pink also, overly bright blue, green, yellow, purple.

Subdued colors are best, especially light browns. Tobacco is the perfect color.

Maroon

I still want to know what color Pam Anderson's caftan is. Not quite orange, not quite red

I also hate purple. Particularly, darker purples.

Camel, especially light camel is also perfect.

Yes I know I'm getting into colors I like.

I like brown men too, am sorta light camel, and many of my relatives are light brown shades.

I have a brown fetish.

I'm very tired of the all white interiors. I don't mind white walls or some white thrown in, but I need color and warmth and some patterns.

Agree, white is over. So garish.

"Burgundy ", "oxblood" , those deep reddish- brown, bloody colors. Blech.

i love purple

My favorite colors are dark red, burgundy, and dark purple as well as all sorts of shades of green except lime. Guess I don't have the DL color palette

Red. I don't wear it or have it in my house. I've hated the color since I was a young boy.

R24 and r29 can't read. And r24 has lousy taste in colors.

I love pink. Especially pink flowers.

Pink is aggressively icky. It grates on me the same way baby-talking people do and people who force their pets to wear clothing. I feel suffocated by it anywhere and in any amount.

Sorry, R32. I didn’t mean to cast aspersions on your color choice, just on the color itself. We wrote at nearly the same time and came down 180 degrees off of one another. Shall we agree to disagree? That’s my vote.

red is an awesome color, I look horrible in it

I think yellow is the least appealing color. The only time I want to see it is in certain fruits & vegetables and with foods such as curry or a lemon dessert. Other than that, I'm never happy to see yellow.

Powder pink and blue … they make up the trans flag, and I HATE TRANS!

I don't like yellow, either, r36. I bought some yellow dishes once, thinking they'd go well with my turquoise dishes. It's not a bad look, but I found I don't like eating off of yellow plates. It was just a few pieces. I'll probably give them away.

None, just ugly patterns and combinations.

Usually, any color is bearable with the right lighting.

Mustard yellow or mustard brown. So bilious. However, a rich brown accompanied by a mellow cream can be soothing. I hate battleship gray, but charcoal gray is civilized.

I hate soft pastels...blue, pink, mint green make me want to hurl. I love persimmon.

I don't like greeny-yellow. Chartreuse? Also dislike bright orange shades.

I can’t stand the color gold and all shades of pink.

Periwinkle, the "in" color. And gray.

I love a charmeuse chartreuse silk paired with a turquoise or peacock mohair or cut linen velvet, great for a chaise or davenport. I hate baby shit green-browns.

This is actually fascinating. I can't wrap my brain around it though. What causes all of these preferences?

Chartreuse and turquoise are one of my favorite color combinations, r45, and there are a number of blues that work well as a third color.

R46 pretentiousness

And negative associations from their upbringings.

I like medium and dark grays (no purple tones in the gray).

Don't like light gray, which does seem namby-pamby.

Art major here. I understand the dislike for yellow. However, when I was painting (oils) on a regular basis, I was really drawn to putting bright, unadulterated yellows on the canvas. I tend to get depressed, so maybe the color helped balance out my mood.

I hate orange and I finally learned that orange was the color of Protestants in Ireland while Green was the color for Catholics (the Irish Flag being both) and I think it was just ingrained in me not to like orange. I heard it's a serious FU to wear orange on St. Patricks day. I only like pink or brown when outside in nature or for wood furniture.

I love Navy Blue, it just makes me happy. Its the perfect color.

that dingy yellow -grey ,overcooked hard boiled egg color is used a lot to paint walls in schools and offices. That shade of yellow looks cheap and dreary.

I once spent an uncomfortable weekend as a guest in a house which was painted entirely in various shades of red. It was like a slaughterhouse.

Lavender/Mauve.

Royal blue, the shade so popular in the 80s but still popular today. Especially with Kate Middleton.

That '80s trio of raspberry sorbet, rust, and middle blue, so popular in doctors' offices, usually as trim on pale beige walls.

Puce.

And Magenta (not really)

I do not care for pastels of any color.

No, r48. R46? One's skintone, often. E.g., I look best in the jewel tones disliked by r19, plus reds, hot pinks, purples, and black.

Yellow, though? Brown? Olive? Bleagh!

Colors are like music---they resonate differently with individuals.

TEAL

Painting men's jails in hot pink has a calming effect and helps them get in touch with their feminine sides.

Most women's prisons' uniforms are either blue or orange. Does this have the opposite effect and make them fall in line better?

Nudes, I suppose. Beige, tans, and browns in the beige and tan shade range. Off whites, creams, etc. Yellow, brass and golds. I detest greenery in floral arrangements, but love it otherwise. More often than not, it’s the color scheme that is unnerving not an individual color.

Parisian pastels. Impeccable taste and practically doesn't appeal to me.

practicality

Ecru, so drab and lifeless.

Dusty pink. Salmon pink. Mushroom pink. Dusty blue, dusty anything.

Bogan Pink.

It's that shade of pink the lower classes in Australia like to dress their daughters in, paint their daughter's bedrooms etc. Go to a Big W, Kmart, Target, Best and Less it's there a plenty.

Yellow. Any shade of it.

pearlized pearl colors on anything other than pearls.

I don't like having to look at too many colors at once. It's visual cacophony. The gay rainbow never appealed to me for this reason; the newer one is even worse. Three colors, maybe four, are all I want to look at at one time. I like Fiestaware, but I don't want to see every color on the same table.

Teal is, indeed, an awful color. I'm sure it looks good on the bird (teal). But it overtakes all other colors, somehow. It's not "natural" looking nor is it "artificial" looking. Chartreuse is a color that I do like and would consider it artificial-looking. Small doses, though.

I can deal with teal but a certain shade of mint green sends me into a rage.

[quote]Teal is, indeed, an awful color.

r71, do you consider Skobeloff, which r13 mentions, a shade of teal? I like it a lot, as well as Fiestaware's similar color, Juniper. I also like light shades of turquoise.

I can't stand the medium shade we used to see in senior citizens' tracksuits, combined with fuschia and tangerine that sold at cheap places like Syms or Marshalls.

Mauve can go straight to hell!

Pink mauve

Claret and Black

Raw Umber.

Blue. I love teal, aqua, turquoise but I hate plain blue or baby blue. As a photographer, I like it in gel lighting but that’s it. I hate blue clothes, blue jeans, blue houses, etc.

I don't like rainbow colors together if they are bright. They clash for me. But I love a rainbow in jewel tones. I had a set of pride rings that were metal and jewel-toned; they were beautiful.

I like colors in combination, like pink and black or purple and khaki. I remember one of Prince Andrew's daughter wore a cobalt blue dress at a recent royal wedding, maybe William & Kate's. It was stand alone gorgeous.

Cerulean.

R73, that seems on the greener (rather than blue) side of teal. I don't really like it.

I do like turquoise with red (not too much red).

Black

[quote] Painting men's jails in hot pink has a calming effect and helps them get in touch with their feminine sides.

Really, R61? Based on OP’s photo, it just looks like another form of torture to me.

there was a whole thread about chartreuse

This is just cheap paint. It is a cheap paint made in resource poor countries.

R61, social researchers working with jails and prisons (Pink was used more in the shorter-term facilities.) studying color impact found that pink was soothing/calming for a period of 1/2-1 hour, and then irritation and agitation became more and more prominent. It was as if it took that long for the underlying red sense to get through and upset people unconsciously.

No facility should ever use pink on the walls. Some pink is fine, but being surrounded by it, even in a house, is asking for trouble.

I'm thinking yellow to impersonate daylight and some light pinkish. blue i feel would cause some definite suicides.

Magenta.

What's wrong with white? Or black?

I'd prefer that to jewel tones in a prison setting. Both seem calming to me.

Look at me, look at me, I'm yellow!

At this point, I feel like black anything isn't chic - it's basic, boring and trying to be classic and refined, when it really just shows a lack of imagination or style.

This coming from a former New Yorker who used to extoll the virtues of black - I've now ridden my closet and life of the color.

I can understand why Barbra Streisand painted her microphones white. It's strange - but now I see black and I think dated and drab.

I like blue.

I hate yellow and grey, especially when they are combined.

how about pastel sherbet colors for male lock up? reminds them of childhood

My good friend is currently re-doing her Family room. Everything---new flooring, Oriental rug, wall paint, and two sofas---will be gray. She said the color is "trendy."

I call it "dull."

R50, its it known in the art world yellow is the color of insanity ie van gough

No yellow or blue inside the house, only outside in flowers etc. Some navy can be ok in the right places. Yellow is too jarring inside at all.

That 80s country decor combo of mauve and dusty blue. Horrid. It made one nostalgic for avocado and harvest gold.

Gerber's Spinach Baby Poop Green.

Purple is a bit overrated because it has this sombre hue that does not stand the test of time.

Blazing orange; I despise it.

Many years ago, I overheard a conversation, with HR and work environment consultant. The color orange, on the walls and throughout the work space induces an agitated, hostile work environment. It can even create violence among the workers.

I was stuck in a temp job, on a computer. The work space had dingy gray walls, with a Walmart style blue accents. It was a horribly stressful, negative work area. It was so dreary. I hated it. If that place was painted orange, someone would’ve gone postal.

I love purple, but it must be dark and sumptuous.

Menstrual blood red

I like colonial yellows and ochres and blues.

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I don’t like brown. Whenever I see something painted that color I think, “Out of all the colors available, that’s what you picked?”

This guy right here.

Harvest gold appliances.

Were they supposed to match the waxy yellow build-up on the linoleum?

[quote]R97 Yellow is too jarring inside at all.

Sometimes that’s good. I’ve painted bedrooms in two different apartments Roadster Yellow by Kelly-Moore in the hopes of it making me more of a morning person. It did help.

What??

Snatch pink

Yellow, Red, Orange. I hate every single poster who described their experience but did not provide an example. Lazy as fuck.

Puce. Have no idea what it actually looks like, just hate the name. "Puce." Ugh.

It was named after Muriel.

Very, very tired of that grey that every single builder is putting in every single modern home. Enough! Don’t know the name but you all know…

NANTUCKET GREY!

Olive green

Aqua marine

Chocolate brown

PUSSY PINK

The uppity ones.

Navy Blue and Black together (clothing or decor).

Olive green and nude