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Color Motif doesn't apply only to characters. It can apply to set design for example. Color-Coded Characters is the character-specific subtrope.
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^ Right, Color Motif would be the supertrope. I've seen examples where, say, the color orange was used to denote the supernatural, or where blue was connected strongly with childhood. These colors were used as mostly set dressing, lighting, the colors characters would paint with, etc. and only occasionally used on clothing.
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It's strange though, I've seen character pages with 'Color Motif' instead of 'Color-Coded Characters'
Then that should probably be switched, subtropes are always used over supertropes.
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Definitely
The impression I get from the Color-Coded Characters page is that it applies when every character in an ensemble has a specific Color Motif to differentiate them from each other. Bob has blue, Alice has red, Charlie has green, etc. If, say, there were six main characters and Alice was the only one to have a specific color (and its relevant symbology) associated with her, then I'd be more inclined to put her under Color Motif than Color-Coded Characters.
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^ I'm inclined to agree.
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A better place to ask this is on the Trope Talk Conversations forum
, which includes comparing different tropes.
What's the difference between Color Motif and Color-Coded Characters?