History Main / SinglePaletteTown

** 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]]

[[caption-width-right:350:They don’t call it the Emerald City for nothing.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1924 Vol 1]]: Everything in the Saturnian Empire's capitol seems to be painted green and orange.

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' goes so far to lampshade this saying that everything on the Romulan homeworld is grey, from the buildings, the clothing, the food, and even the people (the last one is more of a dig at the Romulan's secretive and tight lipped nature making them no fun in Garrak's opinion).

* ''Franchise/Star Trek'' especially in the 90s tended to give major alien Powers with the Federation using Blues and Whites, the Klingons getting Red and Copper Greens, the Romulans getting Greys and Brighter Greens, the Cardassians getting Earthy Yellows (though early appearences also had pink thrown in, until they became major villains in a spin off and pink was difficult to take serious for what was basically SpaceNazis), the Ferengi getting a brownish wet clay color, the Dominion having shades of Purple, and the Borg having Black and a sickly green colors.
** "Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine" goes so far to lampshade this saying that everything on the Romulan homeworld is grey, from the buildings, the clothing, the food, and even the people (the last one is more of a dig at the Romulan's secritive and tight lipped nature making them no fun in Garrak's opinion).

** In the film Return of the Joker, this color trend was acknowledge during a scene with Terry in a dance club with Dana, where the effect is part of the dance floor lighting and alternates between two colors. At this point, Terry has been forced to retire from being Batman by Bruce, and Terry is lit to symbolize his returned status to an ordinary scene, though the asute viewer will notice that while the two color monochrome is still happening on background characters, Terry and Dana are alternating between two different colors than the rest of the background dancers, keeping the focus on them... and then it becomes apparent that the the only other characters lit like Terry and Dana are plot relevant and are people we already met. [[Spoiler]]Specifically, they're the Jokerz gang members Terry previously fought... and more importantly, They're targeting Terry, despite only encountering him as Batman.[[/spoiler]]

** In the film Return of the Joker, this color trend was acknowledge during a scene with Terry in a dance club with Dana, where the effect is part of the dance floor lighting and alternates between two colors. At this point, Terry has been forced to retire from being Batman by Bruce, and Terry is lit to symbolize his returned status to an ordinary scene, though the asute viewer will notice that while the two color monochrome is still happening on background characters, Terry and Dana are alternating between two different colors than the rest of the background dancers, keeping the focus on them... and then it becomes apparent that the the only other characters lit like Terry and Dana are plot relevant and are people we already met. [Spoiler]]Specifically, they're the Jokerz gang members Terry previously fought... and more importantly, They're targeting Terry, despite only encountering him as Batman.[[/spoiler]]

* The US city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is nicknamed Cream City, due to most of its first skyscrapers being built from a cream colored clay found on the western banks of Lake Michigan. While the city now has its share of modern glass buildings, even a lot of newer construction in the downtown area looks to mimic the unique cream color. Even the city's major sports clubs (MLB's Milwaukee Brewers and the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks) have adopted cream as a team color and have introduced uniforms featuring it.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members mostly use green, yellow, and brown, although there are some exceptions. 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 (their monks' habits, they're all SUPPOSED to look exactly the same). 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.

99 Azure City 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.

* Azure City in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', 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 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!]]

* 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 UsefulNotes/SuperGameBoy accessory for the SNES or a UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor, 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).

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[[caption-width-right:350:TruthInTelevision in towns downwind of a steel factory.]]

* Aberdeen, Scotland, known as "The Granite City" by the tourist board and "The Grey [[FuneticAksent Toon]]" by local wags. Aberdeen grantite was one of the city's largest export commodities before the North Sea oilfields were found and tapped.

* 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.
* 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.

* Some cities in France only allow certain outdoor decorations and paint colors to remain for appealing to tourists.

* 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.

* ''{{Webcomic/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.

So there's a place. And it only has one color. [[PowersOfTwo Not sixty four, not thirty two, not four]], just the one color. It's everywhere. And you can't run away from it. Everywhere you go, the people will wear clothes and have hair that reflect this color scheme and no other. They must ''really'' like it.

* WorldOfWarcraft has the two expansion races from the Burning Crusade in nearly single-color towns. The Blood Elves are in Silvermoon, which despite the name, is mainly red and gold; the crashed spaceship the Draenei call home is mainly shades of purple.
* ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Football]]'' has Cyan Lane, which is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of course]], cyan.
* The unnamed city in MirrorsEdge has color ''accents'', mostly from lighting or advertisement billboards, but the buildings themselves are all solid white. It's both beautiful and eerily sterile, fitting for a CrapsaccharineWorld police state.

* Several episodes of ''MisterRogersNeighborhood'' featured a single-palette ''planet'', Planet Purple, where everything was purple and the main inhabitants were blocky people who were all named Paul and Pauline, together with a Purple Panda.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is one of the few long-running series which maintains this gimmick. Water Tribe members only use white and blue. Earth Kingdom members mostly use green, yellow, and brown, although there are some exceptions. 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). 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.

-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' #298, "[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0298.html The Future is Forged in the Fires of Today]]"