History Main / FictionalColour

* ''HitchikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' describes a shade of blue that is ''sentient''.
* The octarine color in {{Discworld}}, which is the eighth colour that only wizards can see. It is described as being approximately 'a sort of fluorescent yellowish-greenish-purple', which may be based on the splashes of afterimage one sees after staring into a bright light.
* In N.K. Jemisin's InheritanceTrilogy, in ''The Broken Kingdoms'', the main character says this about the EldritchAbomination BigBad. It's some color darker than evil or something of the sort.

** CarlSagan, in ''Broca's Brain'', describes his own childhood efforts to imagine a new color:

* Picking up on the color ideas from Lindsay, C. S. Lewis uses them for his eldila (angels/energy beings) in TheSpaceTrilogy. They are normally invisible to humans, but under proper lighting conditions, or if the eldil is trying hard, you will see beams and auras of new colors.

* ''{{Futurama}}'' once made mention of a color called Blurple.

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* The color magenta [[http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/colour_spectrum_magenta_complimentary_bizarre doesn't actually exist]]. It's something that your brain makes up.
** So, you could say... it's a pigment of our imagination? ([[WorldwidePunomenon I know, I know.]])
* In Brazil, people often use the expression 'the colour of a runaway donkey' when they don't quite know how to describe a colour.
* [[http://www.eyes-and-vision.com/how-animals-see-the-world.html animal vision]].
* [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/xn8015k7150g7457/ Ducks see 4 primary colors]].
* Superblack; which is a type of pigment based on fullerenes (large, complex carbon molocules). Ordinary black pigments reflect as much as 2.5% of visible light. Superblack pigments reflect roughly 0.4% of visible light.
* Hyperblack (name pending) is a color currently in development by military researchers around the world. It hypothetically absorbs enough light to make an object painted with it dark enough to make your brain think you have a blind spot in your vision and consequently correct for it. By making it invisible.

->''It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.''
-->-- '''Discworld'''

* ''TheThirdPoliceman'', written by Brian O'Nolan under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. One of the bizarre things the protagonist encounters is a paint of an unknown color that drives those that see it mad.

* ''The Third Policeman'', written by Brian O'Nolan under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. One of the bizarre things the protagonist encounters is a paint of an unknown color that drives those that see it mad.

* Fairest by Gail Carson Levine reveals the heroine's hair to be "htun", a colour only gnomes can see, but which humans see as merely black.

* Fairest by Gail Carson Levine reveals the heroine's hair to be "htun", a colour only elves can see, but which humans see as merely black.

* Dave Gorman, when wanting to write a novel, came up with the idea of a man named Hugh Brown who discovers a new colour. He never actually wrote it, though, due to being a RidiculousProcrastinator.

* Dave Gorman supposedly once attempted to write a novel about a man who discovers a new colour, but ended up going on ''Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure'' instead.

* In {{Luminosity}}, Bella is pleasantly surprised that vampires can see in the ultraviolet; later Elspeth is quite disoriented by vampire memories that include that color.

* In ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'', The [[OverlyLongName Gentleman With Thistle-down Hair]] puts a Lady's little finger in a box that is the 'colour of sadness'.
** But the 'colour of sadness' is explicitly a sort of light [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadet_grey cadet grey]].

* ''{{Futurama}}'':
** Once made mention of a color called Blurple.

** According to TheOtherWiki, The color actually does exist, but it's not made from a single wavelength of light, kinda like brown.

* In the ''BookOfTheNewSun'' trilogy, there's both a color darker than black (described as appearing to be 'a hole in the universe', and reserved for the use of Torturers) and a color brighter than white (used solely by The Emperor).

* In ''JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'', The [[OverlyLongName Gentleman With Thistle-down Hair]] puts a Lady's little finger in a box that is the 'color of sadness'.

* The octarine color in {{Discworld}}, which is the eighth color that only wizards can see.

* Hooloovoo in ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is a hyperintelligent sentient shade of blue.

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** ''Curse of the Chthonians'', adventure "The City Without A Name". The Scepter of Iram has a gem of a color not of our spectrum.

* In JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell, The [[OverlyLongName Gentleman With Thistle-down Hair]] puts a Lady's little finger in a box that is the 'color of sadness'
* The octarine color in {{Discworld}}, which is the eight color that only wizards can see
* I think in N.K. Jemisin's InheritanceTrilogy, in ''The Broken Kingdoms'', the main character says this about the EldritchAbomination BigBad. It's some color darker than evil or something of the sort.

* In GoodOmens, there was a mention of infra-black, that was the color that flashed before your eyes when you've just run into a wall head-first, right before you died.
* Hooloovoo (sp?) in ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is a hyperintelligent sentient shade of blue.

* When turning into a bee in {{Animorphs}}, Marco describes a color so unbelievably intense humans can't see it, but bee eyes can.
* Ambrose Bierce's story ''The Damned Thing'' is about some kind of monster that is of a color that people can't see.

* Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''The Colors Of Space''.

* {{Futurama}} once made mention of a color called Blurple. Oh, and there was also Fry's description of an amazing, indescribable thing he saw that day at the beginning of ''I Dated A Robot'':
-->'''Fry''': I just saw something incredibly cool. A big floating ball that lit up with every color of the rainbow, plus some new ones that were so beautiful I fell to my knees and cried.
-->'''Amy''': Was it out in front of Discount Shoe Outlet?
-->'''Fry''': Yeah.
-->'''Amy''': They have a college kid wear that to attract customers.

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* Hooloovoo (sp?) in ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is a supersmart shade of blue. And by "supersmart", we mean "sentient and intelligent."

* In Good Omens, there was a mention of infra-black, that was the color that flashed before your eyes when you've just run into a wall head-first, right before you died.

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