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Originally Posted by Catlady
If you've got a perfectly good way of differentiating narrative and dialog now--quotation marks--why do you need anything else--color--to supplement or replace it?
Color certainly wouldn't help the reader tell one speaker from another, unless you want to assign each speaker a different color, but that would be beyond absurd. Color would highlight what is dialog, so you could find it, but why would you want to be able to find dialog? I've seen New Testament Bibles render all the words of Christ in red, but that's so one can find those words easily for a specific purpose. What's the purpose in your average book?
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In comic books, they have recently begun using color-coded boxes to indicate who is speaking when the characters are not on the page (such as during flashbacks) and when showing a character's thoughts. It is much less confusing than using traditional thought balloons all over the page since you can put the text box in the corner of the panel and the colors make it clear who is speaking/thinking.