History Main / ColourfulThemeNaming

* The cast of ''Anime/VividredOperation'' combine this with NumericalThemeNaming. '''Aka'''ne and '''Momo''' Isshiki, '''Aoi''' Futaba, Wakaba Saegusa (wakaba means leaves), Himawari Shinomiya (himawari means sunflower), and Rei '''Kuroki''' (the only one with the colour in her surname).

See also ColorCharacter, when a character incorporates the name of a color into [[SecretIdentity the name of of a superhero or masked hero]]. Supertrope to ColorAnimalCodename, which is basically this trope [[JustForFun/XMeetsY combined with]] AnimalThemeNaming.

* ''Literature/TheStrangerTimes'': In the second book, a group of pick-up artists refer to each other only by colour nicknames corresponding to their preferred outerwear. Mr. Red has a red hoodie, Mr. Green has a green anorak, etc.

* In the ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' Webcomic, the [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=470 squirrel sisters]] Scarlet, Amber, Jade and Violet. Though when written it's rather [[LeetLingo 5C4RL37, 4M83R, J4D3 and V10L37]].

* In the (short-lived) WCI High, there was a trio of girls named Goldie, Sylvie, and Rusty.
* In ''Webcomic/PlusEV'', the mother's name is Violet. Her first daughter is Scarlett, which is a shade of red. And violet is a mixture of red and blue. So it was logical to give their second daughter a name that's a shade of blue, and thus she was named... Ultramarine!

* ''Everyone'' in ''Webcomic/PastelDefenderHeliotrope''.
* The ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' spinoff ''Webcomic/StickyDillyBuns'' features sisters Amber and Ruby, hitting this and also RockThemeNaming.

* In WebVideo/TheWithVoicesProject, All the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSRV2j8i5ybbLiM4ZmFbtEvmJWHeZ7ifj Ib With Voices]] episodes are named for the colors of the walls of the rooms Ib is exploring during that particular episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' has the title character, who in a subversion of color-related norms is female. Several other animal characters are also named for their colors, such as the puppies Magenta and Green, and kittens Orange and Periwinkle.

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* The Ravens, very obscure vampiric foes of the original ComicBook/XFactor, all had color names: Crimson, Azure, Coral, Cerise, Beryl, Ruby, and Cobalt.

* Chris Ware, in his ''Acme Novelty Library'' series, has two nerd characters named Rusty Brown and Chalky White.

* Mr. Blue, Mr. Grey, Mr. Brown and Mr. Green (note that these are all quite normal American surnames) from ''Film/TheTakingOfPelhamOneTwoThree''

* In ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'', Mr. White's employer is a certain Dominic Greene, and one of Greene's subordinates is a Mr. Slate.

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': The members of Thanos's "Black Order" squad all have names evocative of the color black: '''Corvus''' Glaive ("corvus" is the Latin name for ravens, which are black), '''Ebony''' Maw, Cull '''Obsidian''', and Proxima '''Midnight'''.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Thief of Time]]'', after [[spoiler: the Auditors take human form en masse]], they name themselves after various colours, possibly a nod towards ''Film/ReservoirDogs''. Since there's so many of them, they're hard pressed for available colors, such as one furiously arguing that yes, dark avocado is a color so shut up. Not to mention arguing over which colors are higher in hierarchy and trying to take them for themselves.
* There is a famous series of picture books from Sweden about three [[MaidenAunt unmarried sisters sharing a house]]. While not their real names, they are always called after the colours they wear: Aunt Green, Aunt Brown and Aunt Lavender. Their neighbour is similarly known as Uncle Blue.
* In the Casson family series, all four children are named after colours, their parents being artists. The eldest is Cadmium Gold, and the colour yellow sums up her personality pretty well, she is bright, cheerful and [[FriendToAllLivingThings everyone likes her]]. Her younger brother Indigo (dark blue) is quieter, thoughtful and sensitive. He also likes to watch the starry sky at night. Saffron on the other hand is a proud, independent girl who feels lonely and isolated since she found out that she was adopted when her mother, her stepmother's twin sister, died. Saffron is outspoken, direct and can be quite harsh at times. It is said that she resembles Cadmium, meaning she is very pretty. The youngest is Permanent Rose, an adorable, very stubborn girl and the artist of the family. She nearly died when she was born, so her mother named her Permanent Rose, as a promise that she would stay.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', the first part of cats' names come from things a forest cat would know, such as plants, animals, and natural objects. They also use a lot of colors -- every basic color except purple and pink. They even use some more unusual colors, such as "golden", "silver", "copper", "russet", "tawny", "amber", and "fallow". Oddly enough, out of over 1000 characters, "white" is the most common prefix of all, and even "fallow" got used about five times, but "brown" only got used once, and the cat in question disappeared from the cast list before recieving his warrior name.
* ''Literature/TheGoodTheBadAndTheMediochre''. Mediochre himself insists his name is a shade of red. His boss is named Kiwi, a shade of green. The dragon he encounters is named Deep Ocean, which she tells him is a shade of blue. The BigBad uses the code name 'Sapphire', another shade of blue.

* Literature/RoTeO has a TV show called ''Crimson'' which is crucial to the plot. In it, there's the titular thief Crimson and the White Knight (a {{Kaitou}}).
* All four of ''Literature/TheUltraViolets'' are named after colours: Iris, Cheri, Scarlet, and Opaline.

* Three of TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse in ''Literature/GoodOmens'' have taken on human identities, all referring to the colour of their horse in ''Revelation'': War is initially Scarlett, but later adopts a new identity as Carmina "Red" Zuigiber; Famine is Dr Raven Sable; and Pollution goes through a series of OnlyKnownByTheirNickname identities called Chalky, Snowy, Blanco, etc.
* In ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'' (a prequel to the ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Hunger Games]]'' trilogy) the members of the Covey all have two given names, one of which is taken from a traditional ballad while the other is a colour. They are always referred to by both names (Tam Amber, Barb Azure, Billy Taupe, Lucy Gray, Clerk Carmine, Maude Ivory) and Lucy Gray is quick to correct a Capitol reporter who addresses her simply as "Lucy".
* ''Literature/TheMagicalRevolutionOfTheReincarnatedPrincess'': Many surnames in the series have a color theme to them. Euphyillia '''Magenta''', Ilia '''Coral''', Tilty '''Claret''' (a reddish-purple), and at the top of all the colors is the royal family of '''Palettia''', or color palette.

* ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' Act Zero has the three policemen Kuroi (black), Shiroi (white) and Akai (red).

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** Most of the original Space Marine chapters were named for their armour colours, only later developing personalities, traits, idiosyncracies and histories of their own. These being the Blood Angels (blood red), Flesh Tearers (dark red), Ultramarines (blue), Space Wolves (grey), Dark Angels (black), Whitescars (white), Silver Skulls (bright silver), Iron Hands (dark silver) and Rainbow Warriors (blue with a rainbow slash on the helmet).
** And then you have the Gray Knights, who are, well, gray (their armor isn't painted like other chapters, those knights who achieve greatness instead have their personal heraldry painted on it).

* The first generation of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games have color-themed town names (playing the games on the SNES's Super Game Boy or through one of the ''Stadium'' games on the N64 yields a different color scheme for each town based on the name).
** The second generation games combine this with theme naming based on plants - for example, Ecruteak (teakwood and the color ecru), Cianwood (wood in general and cyan), and Mahogany (both a type of wood and a color derived from it).
** Red and Blue are the main characters of the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue original games]]. A character named Leaf (after "[=LeafGreen=]") was added in the remakes as it adds the ability to choose the [=PC's=] gender found in later games (storywise, she's pretty much just [[DistaffCounterpart Red, but female]]). The sequels, ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', have Gold (later renamed Ethan), Kris, and Silver as main characters. It wasn't until after that generation that they stopped naming characters after colors.
** [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Two]] [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite generations]] got color-named games - and the intervening ones were named after [[RockThemeNaming valuable minerals]], which also have homonymous colors (except Crystal and Diamond). ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' would eventually bring the tradition back and continue it with the [=DLCs=] "The Teal Mask" and "The Indigo Disk".
*** All of the Seven Sages in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' are named after colours of the rainbow... except for Ghetsis, who shares MusicalThemeNaming (G-C#) [[spoiler:with his son N]].
*** Cheren and Bianca, also from ''Black'' & ''White'', complement each other in both personalities and names - Cheren is Slavic for black, Bianca is Italian for white.
*** Hugh from ''Black 2'' and ''White 2'', whose name is derived from "hue".
** The two mascots of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' might illustrate the ArmsAndArmorThemeNaming, but their names allude to their primary color - the blue-furred blade-carrying Zacian ("the cyan") and the red-furred armor-producing Zamazenta ("the magenta").
* All of the main cast and some supporting characters from VideoGame/CromaHeroes has the name of a color. Even towns and other places follow the theme, such as Brush, Hue, Canvas, Inky mines and Watercolor Port.
* ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'' examples include Ash, Walnut, Canary, Scarlet, and I'm fairly sure Marona, Castile and Sulphur count as well. Of course there are others.
** To specify, the characters are named after wood hues (though some just have normal colors as their names) Marona is derived from the french world from Maroon, Ash is synonymous with grey/black, Scarlet is a shade of red (and Sienna, a yellow-brown) and Canary (a one man AnimalWrongsGroup) is named from Canary Yellow. Of cuse some don't match this pattern (Namely Raphael and Sprout). Other characters with color names include Chief Editor Indigo, Sienna's assistant, Murasaki (Japanese for purple). Marona's mother is Jasmine, and Walnut's real name is Faded.
** Most unique abilities for characters are also color themed. Marona's family has the ability "Chartreuse". Scarlet the Brave and Walnut have "Psycho Burgundy", Raphael's ability "Heliotrope" (Pink), Sprout's "Dark Eboreous" (Ebony), Flame's "Cobalt Blues", Fox's "Viridian Copper", Lierre's "Myosotis" (The color of forget-me-nots), and Drab's "Mega Crocus" (A color of lilies)
* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', Chen, Ran, and Yukari's names mean Orange, Indigo, and Violet respectively. Each name's color's position on the electromagnetic spectrum corresponds to its owner's power level with violet being the strongest and orange being the weakest.
** And then there are [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Scarlet sisters]], and "Lily Black", who is Lily White {{cosplay}}ing, or [[{{Fanon}} a completely different character]].

* Both the Erusean Air Force and the Belkan Air Force from ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' use colours for squadron names, though Belka uses the German versions. In an aversion of the LawOfChromaticSuperiority, Yellow Squadron is Erusea's elite unit.

* RED and BLU of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', natch (which doubles as FunWithAcronyms). Other fronts for the organizations seen in the in-game signage also follows this convention (such as Red Bread and Blue Corn in the Granary map), as do the names of their founders, Redmond and Blutarch Mann.
** Continuing the trend is the [[CainAndAbelAndSeth third brother]], Gray Mann, and his [[DaddysLittleVillain daughter]] Olivia (olive green).
* The villains of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' are called Rosso (red) the Crimson, Azul (blue) the Cerulean, Shelke (amber) the Transparent, Nero (black) the Sable and Weiss (white) the Immaculate.
* Red and Blue, heroes of ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterG'', are members of an entire family of color-based names. Other characters are exempt from the theme, though.
* ''VideoGame/SagaFrontier'' brings us twins Blue and Rouge, as well as Red, who seems to be an expy of the ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterG'' character.
* All of the characters of ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' are named after colors. For bonus points, all of their names also start with the letter "V" (Viridian, Vermilion, Violet, etc.; hence the game's title).
* ''VideoGame/ThePath'': All the girls' names are variations on "Red": Robin, Rose, Ginger, Ruby, Carmen, and Scarlet.

* In ''VideoGame/TheMysteriousMurasameCastle'', the four lesser castles are named Aosame, Akasame, Ryokusame and Momosame, which respectively contain the Japanese words for blue, red, green and pink.
* The three high school friends from ''VideoGame/JackFrench and the 7 Dwarfs'': Michel ''Lebrun'' (French for "brown"), Sam ''Black'' and Will ''White''.
* ''[[Franchise/{{Kirby}} Kirby]]'':

* The three siblings from ''Detana!! VideoGame/TwinBee'' are named after their respective colors: namely Light (Blue), Pastel (Pink) and Mint (Green).
* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'': The protagonist is named Red, while two antagonists who claim Red is related to them are named Blanck and Nero (White and Black).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Runbow}}'', the main characters are named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV the HSV color space]]. The default male PlayerCharacter is named Hue, the BigBad is named Satura(tion), and the default female player character is named Val(ue).
* Roughly half the characters in ''Exodus: Escape From Fort Bullwark'' are named after colors, from Carmine to Coral to Captain Bur-Gundy to the main character, Fuchsia.

* The members of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil from ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' are named after the colours which correspond to their hair colours and one of TheFourGods of the Chinese mythology.
** For Kuroko, "kuro" means black, named after the Black Tortoise of the North.
** For Akane, "aka" means red, named after the Vermilion Bird of the South.
** For Aoi, "ao" means blue, named after the Azure Dragon of the East.
** For Shiromi, "shiro" means white, named after the White Tiger of the West.
* The three player characters in the ''VideoGame/DetectivesUnited'' series are Anna Gray, Agent Brown, and James Blackthorne. This might simply be a coincidence - the series is a CrisisCrossover for three mystery game series produced by Creator/ElephantGames, so they had these names in their original games - but it still fits.
* ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'': The managers in ''GO'' and ''Chrono Stone'' are named after colours, both in the Japanese version and in the dub: '''Ao'''i/Skie Blue (blue), '''Aka'''ne/Rosie Redd (red), and '''Midori'''/Jade Greene (green). The fourth major girl added to the cast, '''Ki'''nako/Goldie Lemon (yellow), follows the same pattern.
* In ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', the main character's name is Sash Lilac. Lilac color is a pale shade of purple, and it's also the color of her skin.
* In ''VideoGame/BugFables'', Vi's full name is Violet (using French pronunciation (vee-oh-lay), to preserve the punniness of [[ALizardNamedLiz her shortened name]]). Though she ironically [[NonIndicativeName lacks any purple in her design]], her name is complimentary to her sister's name, Jaune, which is a French word for yellow.
* Six of the seven sages from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' are named after colors of the rainbow (with the odd one out being Impa, whose status as a LegacyCharacter means that her name predates the theme).

* ''VideoGame/CragneManor'': The positions of the Aldermen of the Variegated Court are all named after archaic colors. For example, Mazarine is a shade of blue, while Fuscous is a combination of colors averaging out to a brownish gray.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'': Piper's friends are Redd, Bloo, Greenie, Yella, and Purp, all named after their respective colors.

* ''VideoGame/ShanghaiEXEGensoNetwork'': Autoroid variants are named based on their color. Red, Blue and Green, and also TieredByName:
** The first tier is [=AutordR=], [=AutordB=], [=AutordG=].
** The second tier has V2 as the tier name suffix. Red is just [=AutordV2=] while Blue and Green are [=AutordBV2=], and [=AutordGV2=].

* The main [=CPUs=] in the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series, aside from Neptune, are named after French color names, matching their outfits and the consoles they're based on: [[UsefulNotes/PS3 Noire]] (black), [[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Blanc]] (white) and [[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 Vert]] (green). Additionally, the [[SuperMode HDD form]] of every [=CPU=] is named "[color] Heart", with Neptune being Purple Heart, Noire being Black Heart, Blanc being White Heart and Vert being Green Heart.

-->-- '''Professor Ozpin''', ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}''

->''We fought for countless reasons, one of which being the destruction of art and all forms of self-expression. And as you are all well aware, that was something many could not stand for. As a result, those who opposed this tyranny began naming their children after one of the core aspects of art itself: '''color'''. It was their way to demonstrate that not only would they refuse to tolerate this oppression but neither would the generations to come, and it was a trend that is held to this very day.''

->''We fought for countless reasons, one of which being the destruction of art and all forms of self-expression. And as you are all well aware, that was something many could not stand for. As a result, those who opposed this tyranny began naming their children after one of the core aspects of art itself: '''color'''. It was there way to demonstrate that not only would they refuse to tolerate this oppression but neither would the generations to come, and it was a trend that is held to this very day.''

** UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} has two light rail lines, designated Red and Blue. Additionally, many of the city's bus services use three busways (highways dedicated exclusively to bus traffic), which all have names, but are also assigned colors: the South Busway is yellow, the West Busway is green, and the Martin Luther King Jr. East Busway is coded purple. The routes that run on those busways have letters designating the busway (so Routes P1 and P67 run on the East Busway, while Route G2 would be on the West).

* ''VideoGame/ShanghaiEXEGensoNetwork'': The Autoroid variants are named based on their color. Red, Blue and Green: [=AutordR=], [=AutordB=], [=AutordG=].

* ''VideoGame/{{LiEat}}'' has Vermillion Town, Azure Town and Gold Town.

** Luke Virigree's surname is a portmanteau of "viridian" and "green" (though his ink is lime).