Awareness Ribbon Colors and Meanings
Awareness ribbons symbolize support, remembrance, and the effort to raise awareness for specific causes, often related to health, medical conditions, or social issues. Typically, these ribbons are short, colored loops representing a particular cause. Our popular Awareness Cross Bracelets beautifully reflect this concept, offering a meaningful way to show your support and spark conversations about meaningful causes.
| 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 |
| 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 |