History Main / ColorCodedSpeech

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Anemone and Vace speak in red text, Dys in orange, Tammy in yellow, Cal in green, Rex in teal, Marz in blue, Tang in purple, Nomi in pink, and the other colonists in plain bold.

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Anemone and Vace speak in red text, Tammy in yellow, Cal in green, Rex in teal, Marz in blue, Tang in purple, Nomi in pink, and Dys and the other colonists in plain bold.

* ''WebVideo/{{Highcraft}}'': The subtitles are always color-coded, and usually don't change for the main regulars.
** Cooper is white.
** Boywucci is orange.
** Barce is yellow.
** Joko is green.
** Bollz (Alex) is aqua.
** Logan is light blue.
** Travis is dark blue.
** Irush is purple.
** Sam is pink, although in "2b2stoned", he's yellow.

* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'': In the VGA version of ''In Pursuit of the Death Angel'', some characters have a different color for the speech window than white while speaking. This gets a frightening effect when you discover one of the characters in the game is the Death Angel, causing their window to go from brown to red.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Annie's speech bubbles have a slight red tint, and Kat's have a slight blue tint.

* In the SLG ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' comics, sound effects produced by gargoyles ("ROAR!", "SNIFF!". etc.) would be rendered in the color of the gargoyle making the noise.

* ''ComicBook/MarvelRising'' (2019): Each character has their narration boxes in a different color. Ms. Marvel's are yellow, Inferno's are black with orange outlines and light orange letters, Quake's are dark purple, Morgan's are green, and Squirrel Girl's are brown.
* In ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan'',

** When he guest stars a book of the traditional Franchise/{{Superman}}, the color pattern of the text is reversed: blue for Mandarin, black for English.

* ComicBook/SpiderMan's foe Delilah had an odd speech pattern; some of her words would be colored purple and written in a formal, flowery-looking [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} font]].

* In ''{{ComicBook/Warrior}}'', there are three colored narration boxes on the Terrain of Testament: one for Warrior's aggressive side, one for his philosophical side, and one for his inner monologue. To make things even more confusing, the aggressive and philosophical colors were inverted in the first issue they appear. Rather than [[ThrowItIn go with the colors as already established]] Warrior put a NoteFromEd in his introduction in the next issue explaining the mix-up.

* ''VideoGame/Rayman2'': For the non UsefulNotes/PlayStation versions, Rayman's subtitles are colored blue while the [=NPC=] subtitles are colored yellow. Averted with the UsefulNotes/PlayStation version, where all the subtitles are blue. Regardless of which version, certain nouns are highlighted red.

* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'':

* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuestInPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'': In the VGA version, some characters have a different color for the speech window than white while speaking. This gets a frightening effect when you discover one of the characters in the game is the Death Angel, causing their window to go from brown to red.

** ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'': Each of the playable survivors has their own color. Louis is white, Francis is grey-blue, Zoey is maroon, Bill is green, Nick is blue, Ellis is yellow, Rochelle is pink, and Coach is purple.

* ''WebOriginal/SeventeenThousandSevenHundredSeventySix'': Different characters have different-colored speech; Nine is red, Ten is green and Juice is yellow. Minor characters get their own colors too.

* In ''Fanfic/TheGodEmpressOfPonykind'', conversation in [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the Warp]] is done in color, to identify who is speaking: Celestia/ TheEmperor speaks in gold, [[ManipulativeBastard Tzeentch]] in blue, [[PlagueMaster Nurgle]] in olive, [[TheVamp Slaanesh]] in purple, [[BloodKnight Khorne]] in red, Isha in green and Horus in silver. Luna is not powerful enough to have a significant Warp presence, so her text is not colored.

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'', Rena has her text highlighted in pink to contrast Keiichi's text, which is colored the standard white like the rest of the game's text. Rena's text slowly turns blood red over time as she [[spoiler:becomes more delusional due to being infected with the Hinamizawa syndrome]].

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'', Rena has her text highlighted in pink to contrast Keiichi's text, which is colored the standard white like the rest of the game's text. Rena text slowly turns blood red over time as she [[spoiler:becomes more delusional due to being infected with the Hinamizawa syndrome]].

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* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'', Rena has her text highlighted in pink to contrast Keiichi's text, which is colored the standard white like the rest of the game's text. Rena text slowly turns blood red over time as she [[spoiler:becomes more delusional due to being infected with the Hinamizawa syndrome]].
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* ''VideoGame/Portal2'': Characters have original colors for their subtitles. For the Space Core, it is orange. For Wheatley, it's blue.

* ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'': Characters' name tags and dialogue are color-coded. For example, Aurora's is red, Igniculus' is blue, and the Lady of the Forest's is light brown. Incidentally, Aurora has red hair, Igniculus is blue, and the Lady of the Forest wears a light brown hooded coat. [[spoiler:That Norah's name tag and dialogue is black gives a hint to [[WhiteHairBlackHeart her true personality]].]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In "Asterix and the Roman Agent", those who fall under the influence of the manipulative Convulvus speak with green colored speech bubbles. In one scene, Obelix has fallen for Convulvus' tactics but gradually comes to his senses, shown by having his bubbles get progressively lighter.