You may think some emotions are placed closer to other emotions than they belong, like ‘stress’ should be closer to ‘alarmed’ than ‘frustrated’. Yellow rather than green may feel happy to you. You might not agree with which colors match emotions on our wheel. There are many more emotions than we have tried to show on our small color wheel (see ). The dictionary defines some emotions as synonyms for others, making it difficult to tell the difference between them. What some people feel are basic emotions, like ‘love’ or ‘hate’, might appear to be a combination of feelings for others. Google lists over 6 million examples just for the term “emotion color”. Not everyone agrees on emotions, what they mean, how they look, or where they might be placed on a visual image like our color wheel.

Emotions are not really colors, but feelings.