# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/41 "2010-06-01T16:12:36Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Someone who knows more about fashion than I do correct me: > Colors that are next to each other on the color wheel are analogous: When combined, they look more subdued than they would apart. > Complimentary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel. They also match but they look more vivid when next to each other than they would apart. Yes. For example, blue and orange - I have blue eyes, and when I wear the orange complement as eyeshadow, they POP. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/42 "2010-06-01T21:16:48Z")
Female here. I like cool/cold colors: black, gray, blue, purple, green. My least liked color (at least in the list here) is brown, though I do like natural browns (hair, leather, wood, etc.) just fine. Probably my least favorite colors are “bug green” (yellowish green) and brownish yellow. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/43 "2010-06-02T20:14:06Z")
Female. I like the whole blue spectrum from the purples through the blue-greens. My least favorite is white. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/44 "2010-06-02T20:24:22Z")
Male, least favorite is close to [French Beige](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige#French_Beige). The best(worst) mixture of puke, mud, and blood. Favorite color alternates between purple and grey depending on mood. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/45 "2010-06-02T20:45:29Z")
Blue, followed by Red, is the best. It works for paint, cars, clothing, eye color, furniture…everything. Yellow, however, is useless. It’s obnoxious. Anything made to stand out (clothes, cars) would be better off red. Anything that’s made to be subdued (walls, carpets) are better off beige, white, or brown. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/46 "2010-06-03T14:54:12Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > male, most liked: purple > most disliked: orange Ditto. Looks like a couple others of us, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/47 "2010-06-03T14:59:27Z")
Female. My favourite is green, my least favourite is orange. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/48 "2010-06-04T02:46:21Z")
I see Yellow and Black, but where’s Cyan and Magenta? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/49 "2010-06-04T04:05:00Z")
Woman here. I loves me some purple. Can’t get enough purple. Long live purple! Purple forever! Purple rules! Orange? _blekhkhkh_. Get it away. (I like to eat oranges, carrots, habaneros, and mangoes. But wear it? I’d sooner wear sackcloth.) I’m a “winter.” I also love to rock black, white, red, blue, green, pink, and anything in the range of plum/magenta/orchid/fuchsia. I also avoid yellow and brown. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/50 "2010-06-04T04:18:16Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > For people who dislike brown: Is beige ok or still too brown? I’ll put it this way: Écru (very pale beige) works for me as a neutral, when I need a neutral, almost like another sort of white. Especially in a fabric like chiffon or georgette. Or linen. But brown brown, no thanks. > [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > For people who like blue and/or dislike orange: Blue and orange are complimentary colors. When next to each other, do they get better, worse or does it change little? Ugh! Can you say _clash_? (Not the band, I like the band.) That combination is one of the most jarring. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/51 "2010-06-04T04:32:53Z")
Yellow is my fave; I hate brown. Unlike most people in the poll, blue is a colour that really bores me, that I never wear or choose for anything in my environment. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/52 "2010-06-04T04:38:57Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > Blue and orange are complimentary colors. When next to each other, do they get better, worse or does it change little? They remind me of the Mets. So, worse. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/53 "2010-06-04T11:36:44Z")
I thought more women would “love” pink. Guess that showed me! ---
**Author:** ![Jon10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Jon10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jon10)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/54 "2010-06-05T01:47:52Z")
I don’t like pink! ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/55 "2010-06-05T10:48:15Z")
I love pink and black. I HATE orange and brown. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/56 "2010-06-05T21:15:21Z")
Lately, I’ve seen a color approximating avocado green appearing in the same old places it used to back in the seventies. Why would anyone bring back that abomination of a color? I’d pretty much blissfully forgotten how ugly it was. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/57 "2010-06-06T00:12:01Z")
Somehow blue and green are the best-liked colors for both genders. ---
**Author:** ![Eustacia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a183cd/32.png) [@Eustacia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eustacia)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/58 "2010-06-06T00:53:14Z")
Back in 1983, when I was in high school, my sociology teacher said blue was the favorite color of most Americans and purple the least favorite. I was shocked because purple has always been my favorite color. Green and grey follow, in order, and purple and green together are sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Monstera\_deliciosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monstera_deliciosa/32/109_2.png) [@Monstera\_deliciosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstera_deliciosa)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/59 "2010-06-07T16:18:03Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > I thought more women would “love” pink. Guess that showed me! I think there are a lot of young girls who like pink, but a lot more who “love” pink because it is foisted upon them, and they think they are _supposed_ to, because it is “girly.” I was actually turned off to pink for quite a while when I was younger because of that. But as people mature, their tastes become more independent, and you are left with the women who really like pink on its own merits. As for me, it isn’t my favorite color by a long shot, but I do like it more now. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202/60 "2010-06-07T16:23:03Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > I think there are a lot of young girls who like pink, but a lot more who “love” pink because it is foisted upon them, and they think they are _supposed_ to, because it is “girly.” > > I was actually turned off to pink for quite a while when I was younger because of that. > > But as people mature, their tastes become more independent, and you are left with the women who really like pink on its own merits. > > As for me, it isn’t my favorite color by a long shot, but I do like it more now. Same here. I grew up before pink was shoved down girls’ throats as bad as it is now, but I mostly hated it as a kid. I still don’t like “baby pink.” The only pink I like is the wild fluorescent “burn your eyes out” shade. I once had a hockey stick in that color, and it got quite a few compliments from both genders. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-about-your-most-liked-and-most-disliked-colors-by-gender/541202.md?page=4)