Coloration

Coloration may refer to:

• Color, the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others, along with any variation, quality, or property thereof
• Color gradient, a range of position-dependent colors
• Animal coloration, topic of research regarding animals' adaptive appearance
• Camouflage, or cryptic coloration
• Coloration in linguistics, such as to "color vowels" in Laryngeal theory
• Vowel retroflex coloration (trill) in the Toda language

In music

• A reference to chromatic musical writing.
• Color (medieval music), a way of using red and white notes to denote syncopation and temporary meter changes in medieval and Renaissance music
• A form of eye music in Renaissance madrigals where the word "color" or "black" was represented by filled notes on the page.
• Key coloration, gradations or slightly different intonation in music

See also

• Color (disambiguation)
• Gradation (disambiguation), a metaphor from the concept of color used in various contexts to denote a smooth variable spectrum of gradations
• Color (law)