Coloration

Coloration or colouration 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
 * Animal coloration, topic of research regarding animals' adaptive appearance
 * Cryptic coloration or camouflage, making animals or objects hard to see or disguising them
 * Color gradient, a range of position-dependent colors
 * Coloration effect, one of the phenomenal effects of watercolor illusions
 * Vowel coloration, an account for historical changes in vowel sounds according to Laryngeal theory

In music

 * Color (medieval music), four distinct senses in medieval music theory:
 * Color (or colour), a repeating sequence of pitches found in Isorhythmic compositions of the 13th and 14th centuries
 * Coloration, a way of showing 3:2 rhythms in Mensural_notation from the early 14c
 * More rarely 14/15c writers use color to describe the chromatic genus or the intervals produced by musica ficta; see chromaticism
 * Coloration or coloratura, ornamentation with many fast 'black' notes, the primary use of term from the 16c on
 * Colorist (music), descriptive term for German 16c keyboard composers renowned for use of coloratura or diminution
 * Key coloration, characteristics of different keys in unequal tuning systems
 * A Colour Symphony, Op. 24 (1922), composition by Arthur Bliss
 * Chromesthesia, a synesthetic association of sounds and colors
 * Chromaticism, the extension of harmony beyond the diatonic system, usually in the context of the end of the common practice period
 * Colouration, tendency of various parts of a loudspeaker to carry on moving when the signal ceases