Color
There are many different lists of colors used by the game, for various items and commodities.
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[hide]Standard colors
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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 clothing, furniture, trinkets, and chromas obtained as a reward from certain types of treasure chests.
There are five of these special colors:
- Atlantean, recovered from Atlantis outposts.
- Indigo, recovered from the Cursed Isles.
- Inky, recovered from the Kraken lair.
- Night blue, recovered from the Haunted Seas.
- Silver, recovered from Greedy brigands.
Awarded in promotions
- Banana, awarded in the Banana Box Madness Promotion and the Banana Mystery Box Promotions (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).
- Chocolate, awarded in the Chocolate Mystery Box Promotions (in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015).
- Ice blue, awarded in the Winter Mystery Promotion and the Ice Box Promotions (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).
- Plum, awarded as part of the Plum Mystery Box Promotions (in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).
- 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, the Lucky Box Promotions (in 2011 and 2012), and the Spring Green Promotions (in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016).
- Wine, awarded as part of the 2009 Harvest Celebration Promotion, the Harvest Mystery Box Promotions in 2010 and 2011, and the Wine Mystery Box Promotions in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015).
Other special colors
- Sea green, available only as a chroma by trading in trinkets at a trading post.
- Silver and bronze, used on medals and pins to represent second (silver) and third (bronze) places. These (along with the standard color gold, which is used for first place) are called the "olympic colors." The olympic colors are also 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 "standard" 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:
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Familiar colors
Each familiar has its own palette of colors. See each familiar's page for the possible colors.
No color
One-color
Two-color
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 |
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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 |
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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 are used in the production of mugs, furniture, and swords. All of these items can use the following eight enamel 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:
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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 can not come in any of these colors:
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External/other links
- Commonly discussed ideas in the Games Design forum