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One of the easiest ways to make a character stand out is to heavily associate them with a color. Sure, a distinct appearance and likable personality are far more important since a good character needs substance, but color association can go a long way in making somebody stand out in the viewer's mind. Hair color, clothing, favorite foods, and special weapons are just some of the many ways '''Signature Colors''' can be applied to a character. They also play a big role in fleshing out factions: whether it's something as mundane as a sports team or frat house, or something far grander like a militia, country, or a criminal organization, it's a safe bet that there will be a special color or combination thereof that said faction will claim as their own.
This is usually an in-universe trope, where the color scheme is self-enforced by the characters as opposed to 'just' the artists. Settings with [[Elemental Powers]] will often have signature colors for each element commonly worn by their wielders.▼
When signature colors are applied to an entire ''nation'', they're sometimes the colors of the nation's flag - for example, the "red white and blue" color scheme that's found across the [[The United States|United States of America]].
▲This is usually an in-universe trope, where the color scheme is self-enforced by the characters as opposed to 'just' the artists.
This is a subtrope of [[Color-Coded for Your Convenience]], and [[Supertrope]] of [[Color-Coded Wizardry]] and [[Color-Coded Patrician]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Unless she's in school uniform or kimono, Rin Tohsaka of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' is consistently shown in official art wearing red and black. Even her official bikini is red. (Some scenes in ''[[Fate/Zero]]'' show her wearing red and white, showing that her accent colour has changed over time.)
* Each of the main characters in ''[[K-On!]]'' has a signature color: Yui's Red, Mio's Blue, Ritsu's Yellow, Mugi's Pink, Azusa's Teal,<ref>Note the alignment of these five colors and the stereotypical colors for a [[Five-Man Band]] in [[toku]] shows.</ref> Ui's Orange, Nodoka's Light Green, and Jun's Light Blue.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In chapter 4 of ''[[Drunkard's Walk]] S: Heart of Steel'', Usagi and Ami buy workout outfits for their training sessions with Doug -- in exactly the same color schemes as their [[Custom Uniform]]s as [[Sailor Moon]] and Sailor Mercury. Luna buys a tracksuit in the color scheme of her canon sundress, as well. Doug considers lecturing them about taking this trope too far, citing the trope by name.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** The Mind Stone. its energy, and related powers, are yellow.
** Billy always wears red and Tommy always wears blue and/or green -- which correspond to the colors of their comic book counterparts' costumes.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Yggdra Union]]'' has it as an [[Identical Twin ID Tag]]: Aegina's favorite color is red, Luciana's favorite colors are black and blue.
* When creating a super group in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', among the decisions to be made is a primary and secondary color, which the members of the group can choose to have automatically replace the existing colors of their costumes to indicate they are on super group business. (Or are just loyal members.)
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
** Tarvek usually wears dark red and white.
** Bang wears bright red ([[Bring My Red Jacket|presumably to not look bad with blood]], except in this case not her blood) and white.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* Huntsmen and Huntresses in ''[[RWBY]]'' appear to have signature colors. It's more pronounced in the main characters -- Ruby's red and black, Yang's brown and saffron, Weiss's white and pastel blue, Nora's pink and white -- but it appears to be present in the stylings of the older generation as well. Ruby and Yang's father, Taiyang Xiao Long, seems to have a similar color scheme to Yang's, for instance.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Kim Possible/Characters#Shego|Shego]]'' from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is never seen not sporting
▲* ''[[Kim Possible/Characters#Shego|Shego]]'' from ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is never seen not sporting Green, even when in disguise.
** Same goes for her brothers, the members of the [[Superhero]] group ''Team Go'', who each have a signature colour.
* The Elemental Nations and their respective benders in the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Avatar]]'' [[The Legend of Korra|Universe]] each have a different signature color, and combine this with [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]].
** The Water Tribes are all about blue with white accents. The only exception are Swamp benders, whose few clothes are brown.
** The Fire Nation favors reds with gold accents.
** The Earth Kingdom citizens dress in a variety of greens with the occasional brown.
** The Air Nomads wear orange and yellow.
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