This research identifies that each of the brand colors has attributes upon which they score more or less than expected by examining the deviations. This study also highlights attributes with major positive and negative deviations for each individual brand color. For example, red is daring reliable is inappropriate to warm colors (red, orange, and yellow) and down-to-earth is improper to cold colors (purple and black). The information also provides marketing managers an indication of how brand color is performing on specific traits and how to avoid the mismatch of perception. Furthermore, the influence of negative deviations is also significant. This study singles out owned traits when a brand color has a positive deviation that is more than 50% of the largest negative deviation.