# A poll about your most liked and most disliked colors, by gender **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202 "2010-05-29T17:09:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/1 "2010-05-29T17:09:29Z")
I’ve wanted to know about people’s most liked and disliked colors. I often see polls about the most liked color but seldom the most disliked one and it’s almost never broken down by gender. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/2 "2010-05-29T17:19:22Z")
Female. Most liked color-green. least liked-brown. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/3 "2010-05-29T17:40:17Z")
It’s hard to decide because there are so many variations of colors. Hues? The color I like in all it’s varieties is blue. Orange has the least I like, although I do like that orange creamsicle color. I’m a woman. That’s probably why I’m having such a hard time deciding. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/4 "2010-05-29T17:43:46Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Hues? I thought about including hues but only included one as there were already 44 options. If you prefer the hue of a particular color, pick that color instead, if you will. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/5 "2010-05-29T18:24:15Z")
What might be simpler, and work better with this sample size, would be ranges: cool vs warm, say. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/6 "2010-05-29T18:36:30Z")
I like blue, don’t like brown! ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/7 "2010-05-29T20:11:16Z")
And if you like taking surveys about color preference, go [here](http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/your-color-preference/), too! ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/8 "2010-05-29T22:46:26Z")
Cool vs warm won’t work for me. I like red, I hate orange. Red, yellow, brown, pink- all fine. Orange- yucky. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/9 "2010-05-29T23:41:38Z")
I like orange a _lot_ if it’s the _right_ orange: a rusty-red red-orange with a touch of brown in it. [Like the rusty red of this marigold](http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/23964/wm/pd2391366.jpg). Towards the other end of orange, taxicab yellow (yellow orange-yellow) can be quite nice. Blue can be phenomenally nice if (again) it’s the _right_ blue, which is somewhat close to [this first-prize ribbon blue](http://www.wpclipart.com/education/awards/award_ribbon_blue_1st_T.png) but it’s actually brighter than that; not more washed out, not lighter, but BRIGHTER, a more vivid blue than that. Blue can be boring as hell if it’s a washed out pastel or a dull navy. You really need that Utah-sky-over-Bryce-Canyon jaw-dropping BLUE blue. Red can be nice… somewhere between candy-apple and ripe tomato, slightly leaning towards orange and away from purple. Red embraces dark quite nicely (unlike blue) so deep redblack reds can be nice. When you grey-ify red it gets boring and if you whiten it you get pink. Don’t like most pinks that much. Bunny pastel pink or hot Barbie-lipstick pink. There’s a small zone in between pink & purple that can be nice, a rich full orchid down through lavender and on to periwinkle, but grapejuice purple just looks muddy and unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/10 "2010-05-30T00:14:24Z")
Geez, no love for orange, huh ladies? It’s not my favorite color because I can’t wear it, but I like it a lot. Particularly if it’s a metallic orange. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/11 "2010-05-30T01:13:30Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Geez, no love for orange, huh ladies? It’s not my favorite color because I can’t wear it, but I like it a lot. Particularly if it’s a metallic orange. I voted dislike on orange although there are some shades of orange I like and I think it can look pretty sharp as an accent color. But I’m not fond of the basic Crayola sort of orange, and if I were buying an item like a photo album or a Thermos where the color didn’t really matter then I wouldn’t pick orange. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/12 "2010-05-30T01:19:34Z")
My absolute least favorite color is peach (which wasn’t an option), but strangely, I like most oranges. On the other hand, I looooove green. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/13 "2010-05-30T01:20:00Z")
I really like green and I really like orange. I don’t particularly dislike anything. I probably shouldn’t have voted. ---
**Author:** ![Q.N.Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3da27b/32.png) [@Q.N.Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.N.Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/14 "2010-05-30T01:21:23Z")
Female. Love blue. It’s my first pick for just about anything: clothes, furniture, car. As for the rest of the colors, I don’t dislike any of them. It just depends on shade and context. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/15 "2010-05-30T01:49:08Z")
Male. Blue is my favorite; brown my least favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/16 "2010-05-30T02:07:25Z")
Male. Favourite colour: yellow. The colour of sunshine! Least favourite: I put brown, but it’s more a grey-brown. It’s the colour of dead vegetation and dirty snow at the tag-end of winter. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/17 "2010-05-30T02:52:49Z")
I love blue, in almost all its shades. (Runner-ups: green and orange). I couldn’t decide whether I hated grey or red the most, so I picked both. It’s not absolute. There are certain tone of red, in certain contexts, that look quite lovely. As everyone else pointed out, orange can come in some disconcerting shades. And navy blue is boring. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/18 "2010-05-30T03:00:42Z")
I can’t really wear orange or yellow, but I wish I could get away with bright yellows (think daffodils). Unfortunately I would look like a corpse, unless it was just a hint of yellow here or there. I also can’t really wear light greens, though dark green is fine. I’m all about the jewel tones, I guess. Especially darker blues. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/19 "2010-05-30T04:32:50Z")
Female. I most like purple but accidentally voted brown. Oops. I don’t like orange because it reminds me of my bedroom growing up. I shared mine with my brother until I was twelve… In an effort to be gender neutral my mom painted it avocado and bright orange. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/20 "2010-05-30T04:56:35Z")
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