Local color may refer to:
- Local Color (book), a 1950 note and sketch study by Truman Capote
- Local Color (film), a 2006 film starring Trevor Morgan
- Local color (literature) or regionalism, a genre of fiction or poetry
- Local color (visual art), the natural color of an object
- Local Colour: Travels in the Other Australia, a book by Bill Bachman and Tim Winton
- Local Color, European travel essays by Truman Capote published in 1950
- Local Color, a short-story collection by John Andrew Rice
- Local Color, an art exhibition by Tullio DeSantis
Famous quotes containing the words local and/or color:
“While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)
“Since the quarrel
Will bear no color for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)