Awareness Ribbon Colors
The meaning behind various colored ribbons (which can be used as charms) is as diverse as the imagination. Below are common and less common associations of colors with disease awareness or cause awareness. Essentially, the premise behind a cause or awareness ribbon is to begin conversation, show support, and raise awareness. Various organizations and individuals have "chosen" various colors to "represent" their cause, therefore there may be more than one color ribbon associated with a specific cause or disease, depending on the source.
Sorted By Ribbon Color
Color |
Symbolizes |
| Pink | Breast Cancer Awareness |
| Birth parents | |
| Childhood cancer awareness | |
| Black | Mourning |
| Melanoma | |
| Anti-gang | |
| Brown | Colon cancer |
| Anti-tobacco symbol | |
| Burgundy | Multiple Myeloma |
| Burgundy and Ivory | Head and neck cancer |
| Dark Blue | Child abuse prevention |
| Arthritis | |
| Victim's rights | |
| Free speech | |
| Water quality | |
| Domestic violence | |
| Water safety | |
| Colon cancer | |
| Gold | Childhood cancer |
| Gray | Diabetes |
| Brain cancer | |
| Green | Tissue/organ donation |
| Environmental concerns | |
| Kidney cancer | |
| Childhood depression | |
| Missing children. | |
| Open adoption records | |
| Sudanese Dafur victims | |
| Liver Cancer | |
| Jigsaw Puzzle | Autism |
| Lavender | Epilepsy |
| Rett Syndrome | |
| Epilepsy | |
| Foster Care | |
| Gynecological Cancer | |
| General Cancer awareness | |
| Light Blue | Childhood cancer |
| Prostate cancer | |
| Trisomy 18 | |
| Scleoderma | |
| Pro-Choice | |
| Graves Disease | |
| Lime | Lymphoma |
| Orange | Prader-Willi syndrome |
| Leukemia | |
| Hunger | |
| Lupus | |
| Cultural diversity | |
| Fight for Democracy | |
| Peach | Uterine cancer |
| Pearl | Lung cancer |
| Multiple sclerosis | |
| Emphysema | |
| Lung Disease | |
| Mesothelioma | |
| Periwinkle | Eating disorders |
| Pulmonary hypertension | |
| E sophageal Cancer | |
| Pink and Blue | Infant loss |
| Infertility | |
| Male Breast Cancer | |
| Miscarriage | |
| Pregnancy Loss | |
| Premature Birth | |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | |
| Stillbirth | |
| Purple | Pancreatic cancer |
| Domestic violence | |
| Religious tolerance | |
| Animal abuse | |
| 9/11 Victims | |
| Crohn's disease and colitis | |
| Cystic fibrosis | |
| Lupus | |
| Leiomyosarcoma | |
| Fibromyalgia | |
| Sarcoidosis | |
| Red | Aids and HIV. |
| Heart disease | |
| Substance abuse | |
| MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) | |
| DARE (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education | |
| Epidermolysis Bullosa | |
| Silver | Children with disabilities |
| Parkinson's disease | |
| Teal | Ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancers |
| Substance abuse | |
| Sexual assault | |
| Polycystic ovarian syndrome | |
| White | Innocence |
| Victims of terrorism | |
| Peace | |
| Right to life | |
| Diabetes | |
| Alzheimer's, | |
| Retinal Blastoma | |
| Yellow | Support Our Troops. |
| Suicide prevention | |
| Adoptive parents | |
| Spina Bifida | |
| Missing children | |
| Endometriosis. | |
| General symbol for hope | |
| Bone cancer | |
| Bladder cancer | |
Sorted By Cause/Disease
Cause/Disease |
Color |
| 9/11 Victims | Purple |
| Adoptive parents | Yellow |
| Aids and HIV | Red |
| Alzheimer's | White |
| Animal abuse | Purple |
| Anti-gang | Black |
| Anti-tobacco symbol | Brown |
| Arthritis | Dark Blue |
| Autism | Jigsaw Puzzle |
| Birth parents | Pink |
| Bladder cancer | Yellow |
| Bone cancer | Yellow |
| Brain cancer | Gray |
| Breast Cancer Awareness | Pink |
| Cancer (General) | Lavender |
| Child abuse prevention | Dark Blue |
| Childhood cancer | Light Blue |
| Gold | |
| Pink | |
| Childhood depression | Green |
| Children with disabilities | Silver |
| Colon cancer | Brown |
| Dark Blue | |
| Crohn's disease and colitis | Purple |
| Cultural diversity | Orange |
| Cystic fibrosis | Purple |
| DARE (Drug and Alcohol Resistance Education | Red |
| Diabetes | Gray |
| White | |
| Domestic violence | Dark Blue |
| Purple | |
| Eating disorders | Periwinkle |
| Emphysema | Pearl |
| Endometriosis. | Yellow |
| Environmental concerns | Green |
| Epidermolysis Bullosa | Red |
| Epilepsy | Lavender |
| Esophageal Cancer | Periwinkle |
| Fibromyalgia | Purple |
| Fight for Democracy | Orange |
| Foster Care | Lavender |
| Free speech | Dark Blue |
| General symbol for hope | Yellow |
| Graves Disease | Light Blue |
| Gynecological Cancer | Lavender |
| Head and neck cancer | Burgundy and Ivory |
| Heart disease | Red |
| Hunger | Orange |
| Infant loss | Pink and Blue |
| Infertility | Pink and Blue |
| Innocence | White |
| Kidney cancer | Green |
| Leiomyosarcoma | Purple |
| Leukemia | Orange |
| Liver Cancer | Green |
| Lung cancer | Pearl |
| Lung Disease | Pearl |
| Lupus | Orange |
| Purple | |
| Lymphoma | Lime |
| MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) | Red |
| Male Breast Cancer | Pink and Blue |
| Melanoma | Black |
| Mesothelioma | Pearl |
| Miscarriage | Pink and Blue |
| Missing children | Yellow |
| Green | |
| Mourning | Black |
| Multiple Myeloma | Burgundy |
| Multiple sclerosis | Pearl |
| Open adoption records | Green |
| Ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancers | Teal |
| Pancreatic cancer | Purple |
| Parkinson's disease | Silver |
| Peace | White |
| Polycystic ovarian syndrome | Teal |
| Prader-Willi syndrome | Orange |
| Pregnancy Loss | Pink and Blue |
| Premature Birth | Pink and Blue |
| Pro-Choice | Light Blue |
| Prostate cancer | Light Blue |
| Pulmonary hypertension | Periwinkle |
| Religious tolerance | Purple |
| Retinal Blastoma | White |
| Rett Syndrome | Lavender |
| Right to life | White |
| Scleoderma | Light Blue |
| Sexual assault | Teal |
| Spina Bifida | Yellow |
| Stillbirth | Pink and Blue |
| Substance abuse | Red |
| Teal | |
| Sudanese Dafur victims | Green |
| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) | Pink and Blue |
| Suicide prevention | Yellow |
| Support Our Troops. | Yellow |
| Tissue/organ donation | Green |
| Trisomy 18 | Light Blue |
| Uterine cancer | Peach |
| Victims of terrorism | White |
| Victim's rights | Dark Blue |
| Water quality | Dark Blue |
| Water safety | Dark Blue |
