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{{quote|''"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."'' |
{{quote|''"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."'' |
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The '''Fictional Colour''' is a color described in a work of fiction that doesn't exist in [[Real Life]], and would be impossible to create or obtain. |
The '''Fictional Colour''' is a color described in a work of fiction that doesn't exist in [[Real Life]], and would be impossible to create or obtain. |
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== Anime and Manga == |
== Anime and Manga == |
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* The color of Vivio Takamachi's magic in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' series is best described as "iridescent". According to [[All There in the Manual|the manual]], it is known as {{spoiler|"Kaiserfarbe" <ref>"Color of the Emperors"</ref> and is strongly associated with the extinct [[Kung Fu Jesus|Saint King]] bloodline}}. |
* The color of Vivio Takamachi's magic in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' series is best described as "iridescent". According to [[All There in the Manual|the manual]], it is known as {{spoiler|"Kaiserfarbe" <ref>"Color of the Emperors"</ref> and is strongly associated with the extinct [[Kung Fu Jesus|Saint King]] bloodline}}. |
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* ''[[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 gnomes can see, but which humans see as merely black. |
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* Nancy Kress's 1978 short story "A Delicate Shade of Kipney" has a group of colonists from Earth stranded on a planet with a greyish, nearly opaque atmosphere. Within two generations, their descendants have given the desaturated colors they see around them names like "kipney" and "tlem". |
* Nancy Kress's 1978 short story "A Delicate Shade of Kipney" has a group of colonists from Earth stranded on a planet with a greyish, nearly opaque atmosphere. Within two generations, their descendants have given the desaturated colors they see around them names like "kipney" and "tlem". |
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* In Eleanor Cameron's ''The Wonderful Flight to the [[Fungus Humongous|Mushroom Planet]]'', the eccentric scientist discovered the eponymous world by way of his recently invented infra-green filter. (Yeah, Ms. Cameron kinda [[Artistic License Indexes|played fast and loose with science]].) |
* In [Eleanor Cameron]]'s ''The Wonderful Flight to the [[Fungus Humongous|Mushroom Planet]]'', the eccentric scientist discovered the eponymous world by way of his recently invented infra-green filter. (Yeah, Ms. Cameron kinda [[Artistic License Indexes|played fast and loose with science]].) |
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