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{{trope}}
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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]].
...Yeah, you've all seen this. Important words and phrases are [[
This happens mostly in video games, especially those that lack voice acting, but can occur in comics and other media from time to time. The World Wide Web, especially, invokes this for identifying hyperlinks (well, usually). Also common in subtitled anime, to differentiate characters.
See also: [[Painting the Medium]], [[Bold Inflation]]. Contrary to what one might expect, this is not the binary opposite of [[Black Speech]]. Text of this kind lends itself very well to a [[Dramatic Reading]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Spider-Man
▲* [[Spider-Man|Spider-Man's]] foe Delilah had an odd speech pattern; some of her words would be {{color|purple| colored}} and written in a formal, flowery looking [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]].
* In the SLG ''[[Gargoyles]]'' comics, sound effects produced by gargoyles ("ROAR!", "SNIFF!". etc.) would be rendered in the color of the gargoyle making the noise.
* {{color|blue|D}}{{color|green|e}}{{color|red|l}}{{color|purple|i}}{{color|pink|r}}{{color|orange|i}}{{color|gold|u}}{{color|red|m}} from ''[[The Sandman]]''. Though in her case, it's a rainbow ''background'' with black letters of varying heights and styles. ''Endless Nights'' shows that she had this type of rainbow speak even as Delight, albeit in a more muted form.
== [[Fan
* To a lesser extent, in ''[[
* Skidmark's speech becomes a wave of rainbow-colored bleeps when he runs afoul of <s>Taylor</s> Freakazoid! in the ''[[Worm]]/[[Freakazoid!]]'' crossover ''[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/freakout-worm-freakazoid-complete.809429/page-3#post-63659126 Freakout]''.
▲* To a lesser extent, in [[Kira Is Justice (Fanfic)|Kira Is Justice]], some of the characters (ie. Fiona and Landras) talk in bold. The former seems insane, the latter is a [[Shinigami]].
== [[Film]] ==
* It seems that ''[[Pete's Dragon]]'' has colored closed captioning, and there are little gags whenever certain words are said. For example, the titular dragon's growly noises are all in {{color|green|green}}, money words in {{color|gold|yellow}}, angry words in {{color|red|red}}...
▲* It seems that ''[[Pete's Dragon]]'' has colored closed captioning, and there are little gags whenever certain words are said. For example, the titular dragon's growly noises are all in {{color|green|green}}, money words in {{color|gold|yellow}}, angry words in {{color|red|red}}...
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* ''{{color|blue|House}} [[House of Leaves|Of Leaves]]''
** To elaborate: The word {{color|blue|house}} is in blue, {{color|red|Minotaur}} is in red (and crossed out), and only a few significant words are in {{color|purple|purple}}.
* Many versions of
** [[Shaped Like Itself|Jesus is God...]]<ref>But not The Father. It's complicated</ref>
** [[Penn & Teller]]'s book ''Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends'' parodies these "red-letter editions": everything printed in red {{spoiler|is a lie}}.
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== [[New Media]] ==
* On the
** Sometimes, if you click on blue words, they will turn purple and won't change back
*** If you clicked on the red words and wrote something, and then went back. They will turn blue!
** On some forums, blue is used for sarcasm and green for innuendo.
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** On the ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' forums, an alternative to 'quoted for truth' (QFT) is 'limed for truth', in which the quoted post is {{color|lime|lime coloured}}.
* ''[[Time Cube]]'' uses this all over the place and seemingly at random.
** A lot of conspiracy theorist sites in
* Some moderators on internet forums use a different "ex cathedra" color or [[Useful Notes/Fonts|font]] for posts in their capacity as moderators. E.g. {{color|red|red}} in RPGNet, where it's sometimes called "mod voice".
* 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!
* ''[[Oh Internet]]'' does this in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509051238/http://ohinternet.com/Desu their article] about a [[Rozen Maiden]] character's [[Verbal Tic]]. This article needed moar {{color|red|de}}{{color|green|su}} anyway.
== [[Live
* In many [[Fan Sub
== Troping Wikis ==
* Tropers working on pages for the more recent ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' series have a tendency to work colors into text referring to riders' varying forms.▼
** There's a lot of this going around on ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series pages too.▼
▲* Tropers working on pages for the more recent [[Kamen Rider]] series have a tendency to work colors into text referring to riders' varying forms.
* If you think about it, [[
▲** There's a lot of this going around on [[Super Sentai]] series pages too.
▲* If you think about it, [[Pothole|potholes]] on [[TV Tropes (Wiki)|this very wiki]] look kind of like this, too, whether the text is [[Blue Shifting|blue]] or [[It Looks Like This|red]]. This includes [[Self-Demonstrating Article|this line right here]].
* 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]] ==
* In many games, especially [[
* The ''[[Trace Memory|Another Code]]'' series used this lightly, mostly to highlight conversation choices.
* In ''[[Okami]],'' key phrases were highlighted in red.
** I heard of a guy who actually used this to play Okami in Japanese despite not knowing the language, because he could match up highlighted key phrases.
* Was used in ''[[Breath of Fire]] 2,'' making an already bad localization an eye-gouging chore.
** The series as a whole, really, abused
* Certain words and phrases you needed to remember in the original ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' trembled and shook in their text box. When Brentilda reveals Gruntilda's embarrassing secrets, the secrets are in an animated wavering font.
* ''[[Terranigma]]'' did. "I want to go outside and see {{color|orange| Crystal Blue}}." "Found throughout the world, {{color|orange| Magirock}}."
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** ''[[Persona 2]]'' was the first ''Persona'' game to use Rainbow Speak, only using it for {{color|#ff6600|rumors}}. [[Persona 4|P4]] uses it sparingly, and it's been introduced to the PSP remake of the first ''[[Persona]]'' too, even though it was unnecessary.
** ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' has it as a plot point. After {{spoiler|Mari is taken over by Kresnik}}, her text shows up as {{color|pink|bright pink}} whenever she talks to distinguish between {{spoiler|the two voices}}.
* ''[[
** This was part of a larger "passwords" system where you had to advance the plot by asking NPCs about certain terms. It's pretty straightforward until the game starts throwing [[Guide Dang It
* Since ''[[Pokémon]]'' started as a monochrome series, it had a variation in fully capitalizing every monster, attack, place, or person name (i.e., "Wild PIKACHU appeared! PIKACHU used THUNDERBOLT!"). Diamond and Pearl eventually ditched this, reverting to just putting monster names in all caps, and using some colored text for certain items. [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]] and Generation V decapitalized the mons' names as well.
** FireRed and LeafGreen colored speech by male NPCs {{color|blue|blue}} and speech by female NPCs {{color|red|red}}.
** HeartGold and SoulSilver colored the words "{{color|red|Sinjoh Ruins}}", "{{color|red|Mystri Stage}}", and {{spoiler|"time travel"}} red for an unexplained reason.
* ''[[Hellgate
* ''Sonic Battle''. No key words, just the basic trope.
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' features this. Not only will the name be highlighted, but a ''picture'' of the item will be displayed next to it. I know what a {{color|red|Power Star}} looks like, {{color|red|Rosalina}}. Thanks for making me feel {{color|red|Stupid}}.
** [[Civilization]] 5 does the icon thing too, preceding words such as production or science with hammers and beakers, respectively. It doesn't actually color the text, however.
* The ''[[Mario Party]]'' series generally uses yellow for the word "Star" or "Stars", and green for player names and other assorted words. (e.g.: Welcome, {{color|green|Mario}}! Now's your chance to win {{color|green|coins}} and {{color|gold|Stars}}!
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** Also, the protagonist's inner monologue is presented in {{color|blue|blue}}, and witness testimony during the cross-examination stage is a nice {{color|green|green}}.
*** ''Investigations: Miles Edgeworth'' adds {{color|lightgreen|light green}} for leads that are added to Miles' logic page.
* ''
** Amusingly, you could find a mild spoiler before you were supposed to by reading (and unlocking) certain articles before you meet Maria.
* Used in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', particularly in later missions. The user
* ''[[Cave Story]]'' uses a variation of this which few people have seen before: Important words are surrounded by ●bullets●.
* In ''[[Hey You, Pikachu!]]'', words that Pikachu can understand are red, while important terms, like locations, are in blue.
* The ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]]'' games use this almost randomly.
* In ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', memes (words or sentences you can influence people's thoughts with) are written in red.
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* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' uses this one quite a bit, sometimes with motion.
* This is {{color|blue|a major annoyance}} in ''[[Folklore]]''.
* ''[[Wild
** The ASK System allowed you to press for further information on a highlighted phrase or topic by selecting it. In practice, all it did was give you a small conversation tree that didn't give you ''that'' much more information than you would have otherwise gotten.
* ''[[Xenosaga]]'' episode III colored words that you could "ask" about when overhearing someone else's conversation, leading to conversation trees.
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** Similarly, the subtitles for ''[[Half Life]] 2'' give a distinctive color to each character.
* ''[[Dragon Spirit]]: The New Legend'' for the NES uses the ''[[Star Wars]]'' version of this.
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* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' features Rainbow Speak as a plot point. In it, any thing said in {{color|red| red}} is guaranteed to be true, while things said in {{color|blue| blue}} are used for theories of possible explanations of events. This carries over to the anime adaption, making it possibly the only non-textual example.
** {{spoiler|As of Episode 5, Umineko has a third colour: gold. What gold is has yet to be expanded on.}}
*** It's pretty clear, actually. {{spoiler|It's used for making statements that use Beato's rules as a basis for deduction.}}
** {{spoiler|And on the final Episode, there's purple, which is functionally the same as the red truth, except that anyone can use it, and only the culprit may lie using it.}}
* ''Nethergate'' has no [[Dialogue Tree]] in the proper sense, instead letting you type in words to ask about. If a character mentions, say, Emperor Nero, asking about him will get the standard "I don't understand" message, but {{color|blue| Emperor Nero}} indicates that they have something special to say about him if asked.
* ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' is all over this trope. There's {{color|gold|your usual keywords}}, and then there's {{color|red|Chattur'gha}}, {{color|blue|Ulyaoth}}, {{color|green|Xel'lotath}}, and {{color|purple|Mantorok}}.
* During the briefings of ''[[Free Space|Descent: FreeSpace]]'' and its sequel, the names of friendly ships (like the {{color|green| GTD Galatea}}) are in green, while the names of enemy ships (like the {{color|red| SJ Sathanas}}) are in red. There is also {{color|purple| purple}} for unknown-allied ships, but is rarely, if ever, used. [[
* The ''[[Mario
* In ''[[Alone in
* ''Sid Meier's [[Colonization]]'' uses this too, so that you can quickly get to the point without looking for the relevant parts in the text messages.
* Spotted in ''[[Tetris Attack]]''/''[[Panel
* ''[[
▲* TV Tropes example: the article on ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' puts Bubblun/Bubby and Bobblun/Bobby in {{color|green|green}} and {{color|blue|blue}} respectively, after their primary colors.
* ''[[Golden Sun: Dark Dawn]]'' uses these like internet hyperlinks; if a phrase is in red then you can pull up a short encyclopedia article explaining it on the second screen (bright red means it's new or updated, dark red means the entry hasn't changed since the last time you saw it).▼
▲** Speaking of [[This Wiki]], the articles on sentai series tend to do this for colorcoding, i.e. {{color|red|Red Ranger}}.
▲* ''[[Disneys Guilty Party]]''; this trope, with the lie detector, makes it easier to find out whether someone is {{color|green|telling the truth}} or {{color|red|lying}}.
▲* ''[[Golden Sun Dark Dawn]]'' uses these like internet hyperlinks; if a phrase is in red then you can pull up a short encyclopedia article explaining it on the second screen (bright red means it's new or updated, dark red means the entry hasn't changed since the last time you saw it).
* ''[[Assassin Blue]]'' marks Assassin {{color|blue|Blue}}'s and {{color|red|Red}}'s names in blue and red respectively. A smaller version of this would appear again in Banov's another game ''[[Dubloon]]'' where the {{color|yellow|Chest}} and the {{color|yellow|key}} to it would be marked in yellow.
* In the game ''[[Lux-Pain]]'', in the pages that showed information on certain subjects, they would use this to indicate what type of information it was.
* The intros to ''[[Hydlide]]'' and ''Hydlide II'' for the [[PC
* Throughout the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series, Guybrush is the only character whose text is always white when he speaks, even when voices were added to the later ''Monkey Island'' games. Many characters often speak lines of dialogue in colors, with one text color attributed to each character's speech. In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'', for example, in forming subtitles, Elaine's text is "cameo pink", while Demon LeChuck's text is "asparagus green". Similarly, the Voodoo Lady's text is "thistle" (a shade of purple), the Marquis De Singe's text is "pink lace", and Morgan LeFlay's text is "munsell red".
* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' uses {{color|red|red}} for {{color|red|items}} or {{color|red|people}} vital to the {{color|red|plot}}, {{color|green|green for important-but-not-quite-vital sentences}}, and {{color|blue|(blue in parenthesis for thoughts or whispered words.)}}
* If you talk to the villagers in [[Rune Factory 3]] and they mention an item they like a lot or give you a hint regarding the storyline, it will be highlighted in {{color|blue|blue}}. The things that Sophia and her father mean in the opposite are highlighted in {{color|red|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]] ==
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has recently started using this trope. {{color|blue|universe}} and {{color|red|universe}}, for example. Often, these differently colored words are also converted into animated GIFs and have a sort of supernatural sparkle to them. Then there's this particularly memorable piece of [[Angrish]]: {{color|white|<big> SHE HAS WHAT [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004163 !?]</big>}}
** 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.
** A literal version can be seen in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=003.jpg this] page of its subcomic, ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]''.
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** 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
** Then there's the fact that all the kids and trolls speak with some color of the rainbow, with the colors corresponding to eye color for the kids and blood color for the trolls, with the exception of Karkat (who writes in slate gray to hide his blood color).
* 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.
* In ''[http://centerstorm.net/lite/cview.php?c=pba Poink-Blank Assassin]'',{{Dead link}} special words are highlighted with [brackets].
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', Squigley's [[Mushroom Samba]] [
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Closed captions sometimes give different characters different colors.
* Subtitles for anime often use different colours for the different characters, especially while several are talking over each other (including background conversations); and plain white or yellow for translations of text (signs, newspapers, etc.) [[AnimEigo]] is known for this, and with the expanded color palette available on Blu-Ray discs, some of their releases give each character a different color font in the subtitles.
* 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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--In loving memory of [[User:CAD]], who fell off the face of the
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Amazing Technicolor Index]]▼
[[Category:Metafiction Demanded This Index]]▼
[[Category:Painting the Medium]]
▲[[Category:Metafiction Demanded This Index]]
[[Category:Video Game Difficulty Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Colour Coded for Your Convenience]]
▲[[Category:Amazing Technicolor Index]]
▲[[Category:Rainbow Speak]]
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