History Main / SinglePaletteTown

** The Broadway adaptation ''TheWiz'' and the RetCon ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green -- perhaps for the convenience of the non-tinted-glasses-wearing audience.

-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', "No Cure for the Paladin Blues"

* The trope's title refers to the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue first generation]] ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games where the player starts out in [[JustForPun Pallet]] Town, and travels to other cities each [[ColorfulThemeNaming named after a distinctive color]]. Provided you had a SuperGameBoy accessory for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

* In PiersAnthony's ''Phaze'' series, the various Adepts decorate their estates in single colors, and even the surrounding landscape is tinted to match.

* ''AdvanceWars'' (at least before it got DarkerAndEdgier) used this color scheme to help distinguish between different nations. It still does in Days Of Ruin, but it's not as clear-cut anymore. Red and Yellow both belong to the same nation, with the two colours representing two sides of a civil war, while Black is used for various groups not directly connected to a nation.

*** Marrakesh is predominantly in desert/peach color of its ancient walls - on its outskirts, even METRO chain had to cover their standard blue building front with desert color prop facade [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh]]
*** Coastal city of Essaouira‎ is known for its white and blue color scheme, even forcing Coca-Cola branding on restaurant's sunscreens to that color. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essaouira]]
*** There's also Chefchaouen [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chefchaouen]], is noted for its attractive blue color scheme.

* ''AdvanceWars'' (at least before it got DarkerAndEdgier) used this color scheme to help distinguish between different nations. It still does, but it's not as clear-cut anymore. Red and Yellow both belong to the same nation, while Black is used for various groups not directly connected to a nation.

* ''{{Homestuck}}'': John Egbert's home town, Maple Valley in Washington, consists entirely of white houses with grey roofs, broken only by the enormous red Betty Crocker factory (and even that was destroyed thirteen years ago). Given that the actual Maple Valley in Washington is decidedly not constituted of all-white houses (people have actually found and photographed the house that's ostensibly John's), it's probably purely stylistic, but still.

* Morocco has some wonderfull examples that even forced changes in corporate branding:
*** Marrakesh is predominantly in dessert/peach color of its ancient walls - on its outskirts, even METRO chain had to cover their standard blue building front with dessert color prop facade [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh]]

*** There's also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chefchaouen]], is noted for its attractive blue color scheme.

* There's at least one town in Morocco where all the houses are white; another town, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chefchaouen Chefchaouen]], is noted for its attractive blue color scheme.

* There's at least one town in Morocco where all the houses are white; another town, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Chaouine Chef Chaouine]] is noted for its attractive blue color scheme.

* There's at least one town in Morocco where all the houses are white; another town, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_Chouine Chef Chouine]] is noted for its attractive blue color scheme.

* There's at least one town in Morocco where all the houses are white.

** Tsukiko can be particularly notable in this regard: Because her clothes and hair are all black as part of her characterization, her eyes are [[MismatchedEyes two shades of blue]] instead, despite coming from a FarEast setting.

* The trope's title refers to the [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue first generation]] ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games where the player starts out in [[JustForPun Pallet]] Town, and travels to other cities each [[ColorfulThemeNaming named after a distinctive color]]. Provided you had a Super Game Boy for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members only use green, yellow, and brown. Fire Nation members use... well, guess (also brown and black). Flashbacks show the Air Nomads all wear pretty much exactly the orange and yellow outfit Aang does (they're monks' habit, they're all SUPPOSED to look exactly the same).
** Unlike the other nations, the Earth Kingdom is ''huge'', so cultures and fashion would vary across it. In Kyoshi Island (in the Earth Kingdom) everybody has a blue color palette except the only important characters from there, [[AmazonBrigade Kyoshi Warriors]] themselves, who wear dark green. Song's village was also pretty colorful.
** The distinct colour differences are really shown when, after a period of time dressed in the style of whichever area they're travelling through, the Gaang adopt their native styles for big events like the Day of Black Sun and Sozin's Comet.

* ''AdvanceWars'' (at least before it got DarkerAndEdgier) used this color scheme to help distinguish between different nations.
** It still does, but it's not as clear-cut anymore. Red and Yellow both belong to the same nation, while Black is used for various groups not directly connected to a nation.

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* One issue of ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' had the titular character using plants to remake an alien world in blue.

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** Oddly enough, in Kyoshi Island (part of the Earth Kingdom) everybody has a blue color palette except the only important characters from there, [[AmazonBrigade Kyoshi Warriors]] themselves, who wear dark green. Song's village was also pretty colorful.
*** There's lots of instances like that, because, unlike the other nations, the Earth Kingdom is ''huge'', so cultures and fashion would vary across it.
** The distinct colour differences are really shown when, after a period of dressed in the style of whichever area they're travelling through, the Gaang adopt their native styles for big events like the Day of Black Sun and Sozin's Comet.

** Actually, a huge number of cartoons do this.

* The Transformers seem to be fond of this: Autobots paint all their stuff orange, and Decepticons color their stuff purple.

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* ''Urinetown'' typically dresses the majority of the characters in various shades of yellow. Guess why.

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* ''Blue'' by Eiffel 65 gives us this lyrical gem:
-->''I have a blue house with a blue window''\\
''Blue is the colour of all that I wear''\\
''Blue are the streets and all the trees are too''\\
''I have a girlfriend, and she is so blue''

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* Sometimes industrial towns will become whatever colour their industry is, due to dust, soot, etc. For example, just about everything in [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/05/2324165.htm Whyalla]] is [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Whyalla-town-view.JPG tinted red]] due to the red dust generated by the steel works.

** Similarly, some parts of Australia are World Heritage listed (the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, for example), which can extend right down to the appearance and colour palette of the houses. Houses in heritage-listed streets must be painted using a particular selection of Federation-era colours, and must have an appropriate fence, similarly painted.

* Many deed restricted communities require specific colors of 'body' paint (usually white) and trim paint.
* A full stadium may sometimes look like this, as fans tend will dress themselves up to match team colors.
** Penn State's whiteout games are famous for this.

* Most buildings in Jerusalem, especially the older parts, are made of a specific type of stone called "Jerusalem stone".
** As a matter of fact, there is a municipal law from the days of the British mandate dictating that all new buildings in Jerusalem must be faced with Jerusalem stone (really a type of limestone), to keep the city's "old" look intact.
* Williamburg, VA law states that all buildings must look like they are still from the colonial era, and thus a large majority, if not all, buildings are made from a brownish-colored brick. The law even applies to the College of William & Mary.
* Bath, in England. Pretty much every building in the city centre (I haven't checked them all) is made from a distinctive golden-beige stone called Bath Stone, or at least made with a similar coloured stone to maintain the effect - the best example being the new shopping centre, which was only allowed to be built in that colour. The effect from the top of the hill looking down is striking to say the least.

* Buildings in Boca Raton, FL are generally expected to be pink.

* The earliest known example of this trope is in the ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' books, where the famous Emerald City is a uniform splendid shade of green, and was immortalized as such in the famous 1939 film of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', making this OlderThanTelevision. Interestingly, in [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the original book]], the city wasn't ''actually'' green--the wizard just required that everyone wears glasses that make it look green, for his own selfish purposes. Regardless, the trope still fully applies to Munchkin Country, where houses and clothes were invariably blue, and likewise for the yellow-loving Winkies, the red-sporting Quadlings, and the purple-clad Gillikins. In some of the books, this trope goes to an extreme: even the dirt, rocks, houses, and plants take on a particular hue depending where in Oz it is.

*** The movie version of ''The Wiz'''s Emerald City is a SinglePaletteTown, but the actual color on that palette changes on occasion because of fashion. It starts green, then turns red, and then turns gold.

* The Happy Happy Village in ''EarthBound'' is covered and continually repainted in blue by the town when it is under the influence of the insane Happy Happy cult, which worships the colour blue. [[ExaggeratedTrope Even the livestock get painted blue]]. When the cult's leader is defeated, the town reverts to its normal color scheme.
* The trope's title refers to the [[PokemonRedAndBlue first generation]] ''{{Pokemon}}'' games where the player starts out in [[JustForPun Pallet]] Town, and travels to other cities each [[ColorfulThemeNaming named after a distinctive color]]. Provided you had a Super Game Boy for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

* In order to make important characters stand out, background crowds in ''BatmanBeyond'' are colored in monochrome - usually purple or blue.

Has nothing to do with the protagonist's home town in ''{{Pokemon}}'' (That's *Pallet* Town).

* The trope's title refers to the [[PokemonRedAndBlue first generation]] ''{{Pokemon}}'' games where the player starts out in Pallet Town, and travels to other cities each named after a distinctive color. Provided you had a Super Game Boy for the SNES or a Game Boy Color, the color of the town becomes the palette scheme (so Saffron City looks very yellow, Vermilion City is red, and so forth). The second generation of games' cities were similarly colored, though they were named after plants rather than colors there (though there was some overlap, like Violet City and Mahogany Town).

-->-- ''OrderOfTheStick'', "No Cure for the Paladin Blues"

** The Broadway adaptation ''TheWiz'' and the [[RetCon RetCon]] ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' both adopt the glasses from the book, but oddly enough, in both cases the town is still green -- perhaps for the convenience of the non-tinted-glasses-wearing audience.

* In PiersAnthony's ''Phaze'' series, the various Adepts decorate their estates in single colors, and even the surrounding landscape is tinted to match.

* Azure City in ''OrderOfTheStick'', being described at the top of the page, uses a strictly blue palette scheme- clothes, architecture, even hair color is always disproportionately blue. Particularly odd for a series with otherwise strictly conventional hair colors for humans (I guess YouGottaHaveBlueHair...).
** Tsukiko can be particularly notable in this regard: Because her clothes and hair are all black as part of her characterization, her eyes are [[MismatchedEyes two shades of blue]] instead, despite coming from a FarEast setting.
** This appears to be religiously motivated... Or something. When a Paladin of the Sapphire Guard [[spoiler: Falls, she is struck by lightning which not only removes her powers but leaches her all-blue outfit to beige!]]

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members only use green, yellow, and brown. Fire Nation members use... well, guess (also brown and black). Flashbacks show the Air Nomads all wear pretty much exactly the orange and yellow outfit Aang does (they're monks' habit, they're all SUPPOSED to look exactly the same).

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* In some country areas in Australia, by local law, houses may only be painted certain colours, mainly brown and green, so that they blend in better with the trees and don't ruin the view too much.

* Many deed restricted communities require specific colors of 'body' paint (usually white) and trim paint.

* Noticeable in many modern British housing estates, whose developer will buy one variety of brick and tile in bulk and build several dozen houses with it. Often combined with a RealLife version of CutAndPasteEnvironments seeing as many big-name property developers create half a dozen standard house designs and repeat them constantly.
* Buildings in Boca Raton, FL are generally expected to be pink.

* One issue of ''SwampThing'' had the titular character using plants to remake an alien world in blue.