Rythme, Joie de vivre by Robert Delaunay (1930)
"If I had to paint a picture / Of how the world would really be / I would use the finest colours..."
— Billy Ocean, "The Colour of Love"
These tropes are mostly about being Colour-Coded for Your Convenience or other affinities related to specific colors.
NOTE: Similar to the Rule of Index caveat, just because a specific color appears in the name of the trope does it qualify for a sub-index. In fact, some tropes will qualify without having to mention the color.
Tropes:
Sub-indexes:
- Black Index, White Index
- Blue Tropes
- Characteristic Clothing Colors
- Gray Tropes
- Green Tropes
- Hair Colors
- An Index Orange
- Paint the Index Red
- Pink Tropes
- Purple is the New Trope
- Rainbow Tropes
- Red Index, Blue Index
- Red Index, Green Index
- This Index Is Brown
- Tropes in Black
- Tropes in White
- The Yellow Index
- Alien Blood: A character bleeds a strangely colored substance that isn't the red blood of humans, usually to either reveal or emphasize that the character isn't actually human.
- All Your Colors Combined: A color-scheme team combines their forces into an amazing blast of rainbow-colored power.
- Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: A video game level that is trippy as trippy can be.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The humans in a work come in many different colors.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: The animals in a work come in many different colors.
- Amazing Technicolor World: The entire world is a kaleidoscope of color.
- Bright Is Not Good: Just because something comes in bright colors doesn't mean that it's good.
- Captain Colorbeard: Pirate with a name of (Insert something here)-Beard.
- Chiaroscuro: There's only one bright source of light. Everything else is shadow.
- Color Character: Part of a superhero's title is a color.
- Color-Coded Armies: An easy way to tell the sides of an army apart is to just color-code them.
- Color-Coded Characters: Each character has their assigned color.
- Chromatic Arrangement: Three to four characters are assigned three to four primary colors.
- Color-Coded Secret Identity: Someone's everyday civilian clothes just so happen to be the same color(s) as their superhero costume.
- Rainbow Motif: The seven colors of the rainbow as a motif.
- Color-Coded Elements: Fire is red, water is blue, earth is green...The list goes on.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Colours are used to denote something.
- Color-Coded Multiplayer: A video game with a multiplayer option has the players in different colors.
- Color-Coded Patrician: The person of the highest rank wears a different color than everyone else.
- Color-Coded Stones: Gems can come in many different colors, but this applies when they're assigned set hues.
- Colour-Coded Timestop: To show that times had come to a stop, all the color in a scene either changes or washes out completely.
- Color-Coded Wizardry: Spellcasting characters are assigned colors.
- Color Contrast: Two opposing things have two opposing colors.
- Color Failure: Someone is so shocked all the color drains from them. Literally.
- Colorful Song: A song all about colors!
- Colorization: Manually adding color to what was originally made in monochrome.
- Color Motif: A recurring color or color scheme within a work, often with symbolic meaning.
- Color Wash: A visual effect to make everything take a similar hue to evoke a certain feeling.
- Colorful Contrails: A person or object running at high speed leaves behind a trail of color.
- Coloring in the World: The narrative involves actively bringing or restoring color to a colorless setting.
- Decade-Themed Filter: Different time periods have their own colors, filters, effects, etc.
- Deliberately Monochrome: There's a reason why everything is black-and-white.
- Alternate Monochrome Version: There's a reason for why this already-colored work is now black-and-white.
- Splash of Color: In a black-and-white expanse, something important is given color.
- Eye Colors
- Eye Colour Change: A character's eyes change color in response to something, either literally or symbolically.
- Technicolor Eyes: Eye color(s) that is physically impossible and simply unusual.
- Curtains Match the Window: When eyes and hair are the same color.
- "Uh-Oh" Eyes: A subindex of tropes for when a change in someone's eyes is a sign of danger.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: If someone's eyes start glowing, it's time to start running.
- Hellish Pupils: When someone's pupils become anything but round, bad things are to follow.
- Fictional Colour: A color appears in a work that doesn't exist in real life.
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: The good guys are one color, and the bad guys are another.
- Hades Shaded: Once you go to the dark side, every color on you follows.
- Hollywood Chameleons: Fictional chameleons have amazing color-changing abilities.
- Inconsistent Coloring: A visual mistake — something's color completely changes the next time the thing is seen.
- Law of Chromatic Superiority: Different colors denote different levels of quality.
- Monochromatic Impact Shot: Use of Deliberate Monochrome on a heavy impact.
- Monochrome Apparition: Ghosts appearing in single colors.
- Monochrome to Color: Everything goes from black-and-white to color, color everywhere!
- Palette Swap: Two sprites in a video game look exactly alike save for their colors.
- Palette-Swapped Alien Food: Alien food looks like oddly colored human food.
- Underground Monkey: When a video game only has one kind of enemy, but it comes in many versions.
- Pattern-Coded Eggs: A fictional animal's egg matches the color and pattern of the animal inside it.
- Power Up Full Color Change: Unlocking great powers means a character gets a new palette to go with it.
- Primary-Color Champion: Red and blue (and maybe yellow) are the colors of heroes.
- Queer Colors: An LGBTQ character is symbolized by pride flag colors.
- Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: All it takes is one dark fabric to ruin a whole load of white laundry.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: As a flipside to the heroes' primary colors, villains come in hues of green, purple, and orange.
- Single-Palette Town: A place where everything is the same color.
- Technicolor Blade: Metal blades that come in unique colors.
- Technicolor Fire: Fire with lots of different colors.
- Technicolor Magic: Color-coded magic.
- Technicolor Wind: Wind with lots of different colors.
- Technicolor Science: Science looks "cooler" when all the chemicals and reactions are bright and neon.
- Technicolor Toxin: Poison is as vivid as it is deadly.
- Undeathly Pallor: An undead character is pure white, pale blue, etc.
- World of Technicolor Hair: Characters have hair all over the rainbow, as opposed to the human spectrum of blonde, red, and black/brown.
