Rainbow Speak: Difference between revisions

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An [[NPC]] has just told you that you have to retrieve the [[MacGuffin|legendary golden sphere]] from the [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|ancient dragon]]. Legends say he's in the [[Underground Level|Cave of Horrors]]. To find out where that is, you'll have to ask [[Notice This|The Town Sage]].

 

 

* To a lesser extent, in ''[[Kira Is Justice]]'', some of the characters (ie. Fiona and Landras) talk in bold. The former seems insane, the latter is a [[Shinigami]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* Various subsets of ''[[The Slender Man Mythos]]'' use this; for example, there's [http://quiaegosicdico.blogspot.com/ A Lack of Lexicon], which has each character speak in a different font; at one point, the font actually changes in colour as it reveals one character (jokingly) masquerading as another.

* These [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/war-surface-doomsday.php instructions for a the thing s]. It is a good to read the mALL!

 

 

* In many [[Fan Sub]]s of ''[[Super Sentai]], [[Kamen Rider]]'', and other [[Toku]] shows, the characters' [[By the Power of Greyskull|Henshin Calls]], [[In the Name of the Moon]], and [[Calling Your Attacks|attacks]] will be in their signature colors.

 

* If you think about it, [[pothole]]s on this very wiki look kind of like this, too, whether the text is [[Blue Shifting|green]], [[Self-Demonstrating Article|blue]], or [[It Looks Like This|red]].

* Trope pages dealing with colors often have this, such as [[Rainbow Motif]], [[Color Character]], and [[Color-Coded Elements]]. And, as mentioned above, [[Self-Demonstrating Article|this article right here]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The ''[[Trace Memory|Another Code]]'' series used this lightly, mostly to highlight conversation choices.

* In ''[[Okami]],'' key phrases were highlighted in red.

* In ''[[Shantae]]: Risky's Revenge'', important items and innuendos in dialogue are highlighted yellow.

* ''[[Undertale]]'' has a lot of fun with this. Important hints are said in different colors, a particular pair of NPC have colored text to identify each speaker, and allusions to particular powers are said in the same colors such powers have in battle. {{Spoiler|In the Bad Route, the increasing use of {{color|red|red text}} is used to signify that the player character is increasingly hickjacked by the now deranged Fallen Child.}}

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Later: [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005117 WHAT DID YOU DO?]

** Also, '''The Tumor''' is always in bold black font, no matter what color the pesterlog would be normally.

{{quote|'''Hella Jeff:''' ahahahahaha just HOW {{color|magenta|h}}{{color|blue|i}}{{color|cyan|g}}{{color|green|h}} do you even have to BE just to DO something like that........}}

** In an offshoot timeline where {{spoiler|Gamzee succeeded in killing all the trolls minus Aradia, he used their blood to write a code in a book. Each letter used an alternating color of the rainbow.}} Literal Rainbow Speak.

* The webcomic ''[[Sodium Eyes]]'' started using distinctively colored speech balloons for each character, so that readers could more easily tell which lines of dialog were spoken by which character. It works so well it's surprising the technique wasn't employed by many comics long ago.

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' also uses colored speech balloons for various characters, though the colors are very subtle.

* ''[[MS Paint Masterpieces]]'' uses this for emphasis.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Closed captions sometimes give different characters different colors.

* For aspiring authors writing their synopses, it is common practice to put the first instance of each character name in all caps. This is used both to denote importance and to help the agent/publisher in case they need to reference back who a character with a certain name is.

 

 

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[[Category:Amazing Technicolor Index]]

[[Category:Color-Coded for Your Convenience]]