Fictional Colors
- Garrow and Infra-White – colors invented in the Nebulous episode "Madness is a Strange Colour". Both colors affect the human mind in odd ways, either destroying or creating sanity. Professor Nebulous claims that he discovered Infra-White by looking underneath and behind the visible spectrum.
- Fuligin – both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book, The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is defined as "the color that is darker than black" and also as "the color of soot."
- Grue and bleen – colors that change after an arbitrary, but fixed time; coined by Charles Dodgson in Sylvie and Bruno and used by philosopher Nelson Goodman to illustrate what he calls "the new riddle of induction."
- Hooloovoo – a superintelligent shade of the color blue in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
In Life, the Universe, and Everything, Adams mentions Agrajag's lair as being painted in
"the whole spectrum of eye-defying colours from Ultra Violent to Infra Dead, taking in Liver Purple, Loathsome Lilac, Matter Yellow, Burnt hombre and Gan Green on the way." - Octarine – the color of magic in the Discworld fantasy novels, described as resembling a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.
- Squant – a fourth primary color publicized by the experimental band Negativland in 1993.
- Jale and Ulfire – new primary colors (shades of ultraviolet?) in A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) by David Lindsay.
- The Colour Out of Space – a vaguely described alien hue, from the story of that name by H. P. Lovecraft (1927).
- The colors tang and burn are colors in the infrared range seen by the albino mutant Olivia Presteign (whose vision only functions in the infrared) in the 1956 science fiction novel The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
- Htun is a color similar to black only seen by gnomes in the book Fairest by Gail Carson Levine.
- Sangoire is a color of red 'so dark and saturated it almost black', seen in the Kushiel's Legacy Series by Jacqueline Carey.
- Blellow is the name given to the color created by Reese of Malcolm in the Middle when he mixed blue and yellow together. Otherwise known as green.
- Celestewhite is a color invented by Carlos Argentino for his lengthy topographical poem intended to describe the entire world, in Jorge Luis Borges' The Aleph. It "actually suggests the sky, an element of utmost importance in the landscape of the Down Under."
- In the Martian (Barsoom) novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the spectrum is divided into nine colors rather than the earthly seven. John Carter describes the additional colors as "...two beautiful rays which, to me, were new and nameless. I cannot describe them any more than you could describe red to a blind man. I only know that they were beautiful in the extreme." The eighth ray exerts an anti-gravity force and is trapped in tanks by the Red Martians to levitate and propel their flying craft. The ninth ray is processed by the great atmosphere factory to create breathable air for Barsoom.
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