Color
There are many different lists of colors used by the game, for various items and commodities.
Contents
[hide]Standard colors
- Aqua
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Gold
- Green
- Grey
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Light blue
- Light green
- Lime
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Mint
- Navy
- Orange
- Peach
- Persimmon
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Rose
- Tan
- Violet
- White
- Yellow
Although these are the main twenty-seven colors used in standard ways, this is not an exhaustive list of all possible colors in the game.
Savvy hat exception
The savvy hat, while an item of clothing, does not come in the same variety of colors as the other clothing in the game. While the OMs can manually create a savvy hat in any color, they do not do so except for extremely special incidents. The full list of possible savvy combination is viewable on the savvy hat page.
Special colors
Awarded from treasure chests
Special colors appear on clothes, furniture, and trinkets, obtained as a reward from treasure chests recovered using special charts.
There are three of these special colors:
- Atlantean, recovered from Atlantis outposts.
- Indigo, recovered from the Cursed Isles.
- Night blue, recovered from the Haunted Seas.
Awarded in promotions
- Banana, awarded in the Banana Box Madness Promotion and the Banana Mystery Box Promotions (in 2011 and 2012).
- Chocolate, awarded in the Chocolate Mystery Box Promotions (in 2010, 2011, and 2012).
- Ice blue, awarded in the Winter Mystery Promotion and the Ice Box Promotions (in 2011 and 2012).
- Plum, awarded as part of the Plum Mystery Box Promotions (in 2011 and 2012).
- Royal blue, awarded in the Golden Doubloon Club and Monthly Rewards Program promotions.
- Spring green, awarded in the Spring Surprise Promotion, the May Mystery Promotion and the Lucky Box Promotions (in 2011 and 2012).
- Wine, awarded as part of the Harvest Celebration Promotion and the Harvest Mystery Box Promotions (in 2010 and 2011).
Other special colors
- Sea green, available only as a chroma by trading in trinkets at a trading post.
- Silver and bronze, used on trinkets to represent second and third places. These (along with gold, which is also a standard color) are called the "olympic colors". The olympic colors are used as a highlight color for the Karkinos.

Each colonized island has its own navy, and each such navy has its own associated color. Please note that while these colors are from the palette of "basic" colors, they do not include any of the rare and/or expensive colors from that palette (such as black, purple, or maroon).
The clothes worn by the NPPs in that island's navy will all be of that island's navy's color. Furthermore, any clothes given by a pirate's home island's navy (for promotion in that navy) will also be of that island's navy's color.
Here is a list of the colors available for the island navies:
- Aqua
- Blue
- Brown
- Green
- Grey
- Lime
- Orange
- Pink
- Red
- Tan
- Violet
- White
- Yellow
Familiar colors
Each familiar has its own palette of colors. Monkeys, octopodes, and ippolitos are monochromatic, while parrots and serpents have two colors. See below for skeletal monkeys.
Monkey colors
Except for those in promotional boxes, monkeys only come in so-called natural colors. Please see the article about monkeys for a more descriptive and definitive version.
- Almond
- Brown
- Copper
- Ginger
- Green
- Grey
- Orange
- Red
- Tan
- White
- Wine
- Yellow
Octopus colors
- Aqua
- Black
- Blue
- Brown
- Gold
- Grey
- Green
- Lavender
- Light blue
- Light green
- Lime
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Mint
- Navy
- Orange
- Peach
- Pink
- Purple
- Red
- Rose
- Tan
- Violet
- Wine
- White
Ippolito colors
Ippolito are currently only known to come in seven colors:
- Aqua
- Atlantean
- Black
- Blue
- Light blue
- Navy
- White
Skeleton colors
Bone trinkets, skellies, skeleton bones, and skeletal monkey familiars come in only these seven colors.
- Bleached
- Dark grey
- Grey
- Ice
- Moss
- Olive
- Red
Herb colors
Herbs come in fifteen hues (no gold, tan, maroon, lavender, mint, rose, magenta or light green), each one representing a different commodity. Note that the colors and shapes may not reflect their real-life counterparts:
Color | Herb | Shape |
---|---|---|
Aqua | Cowslip | Urceolate |
Black | Sassafras | Amentaceous |
Blue | Elderberries | Funnelform |
Brown | Old man's beard | Amentaceous |
Green | Nettle | Urceolate |
Grey | Iris root | Amentaceous |
Lime | Lily of the valley | Urceolate |
Navy | Indigo | Funnelform |
Orange | Butterfly weed | Urceolate |
Pink | Broom flower | Funnelform |
Purple | Pokeweed berries | Funnelform |
Red | Madder | Amentaceous |
Violet | Lobelia | Funnelform |
White | Yarrow | Amentaceous |
Yellow | Weld | Funnelform |
Mineral colors
Minerals are similar to herbs. They may also be found as large or small crystals; only one of which can be spawned on an island.
Color | Mineral | Size of Crystals |
---|---|---|
Black | Thorianite | Large |
Blue | Papagoite | Large |
Brown | Leushite | Large |
Grey | Chalcocite | Large |
Lime* | Sincosite | Small |
Orange | Masuyite | Small |
Pink | Serandite | Small |
Red | Lorandite | Large |
White | Tellurium | Large |
Yellow | Cubanite | Small |
*On the Yohoho! Island Scene Editor, this is listed as green.
Processed commodities
Enamels
Enamels, which change the drop pattern of a sword, and are also used for mugs and furniture, are found in eight colors:
- Black
- Blue
- Green
- Orange
- Purple
- Red
- White
- Yellow
Enamels for non-swords
The following enamels may not be used in the production of swords, but can be used for mugs and furniture:
- Aqua
- Brown
- Gold
- Grey
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Light blue
- Light green
- Lime
- Magenta
- Maroon
- Mint
- Navy
- Peach
- Persimmon
- Pink
- Rose
- Tan
- Violet
Dyes
Dyes come in blue, green, red, and yellow. (However, lime dye is known to have existed on Midnight, and may therefore be rarely encountered on Cerulean.)
Paints
Paints come in all twenty-seven standard colors.
Bludgeon exception
Though bludgeons involve paint in their recipes, bludgeons cannot come in yellow, violet, lavender, mint, rose, light green, magenta, light blue, peach, or persimmon.