Awareness Ribbon Colors and Meanings
A list of awareness ribbon colors and meanings. Shop Awareness Cross Bracelets.
Awareness ribbons show support and remembrance while raising awareness for a specific cause, usually related to health and medical conditions or social issues. The awareness ribbons are customarily short, colored ribbons in a folded loop.
| Color | Cause |
|---|---|
| Red | AIDS/HIV, alcohol & substance abuse, vasculitis, love, heart, disease |
| Orange | Hunger, leukemia, animal protection awareness, self-injury awareness, multiple sclerosis, ADHD, kidney cancer |
| Yellow | Support our troops, suicide prevention, genocide awareness, sarcoma, and bone cancer awareness |
| Green | Tissue and organ donation or transplants, mental health, mental illness, leukemia, environment, kidney neural tube defects, Save The Earth, Go Green, recycling |
| Blue | Child abuse prevention, arthritis, sex trafficking, slavery, prostate cancer |
| Purple | Sarcoidosis, lupus, fibromyalgia, religious tolerance, violence against women, domestic violence, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s disease, pancreatic cancer, epilepsy |
| Violet | Hodgkin’s lymphoma |
| White | Victims of terrorism, peace, blindness, Holocaust remembrance |
| Black | Mourning, melanoma |
| Lime Green | Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, muscular dystrophy, mental health |
| Teal | Gynecological cancers, sexual assault |
| Periwinkle | Eating disorders, pulmonary hypertension, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer |
| Pink | Breast cancer |
| Cream | Paralysis, spinal cord injuries, spinal diseases, or disorders |
| Light Blue | Prostate cancer, men’s health |
| Lavender | All cancers (general cancer awareness), epilepsy |
| Pearl | Lung cancer or lung disease, multiple sclerosis |
| Gray | Diabetes, brain cancer, asthma |
| Silver | Brain disorders |
| Gold | Childhood cancer |