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  • Garrow and Infra-White – colours invented in the Nebulous episode "Madness is a Strange Co lour". The first color both colours affect the human mind in odd ways, either destroying or creating sanity. Professor Nebulous claims that he discovered Infra-White by looking 'underneath and behind' the visible spectrum.
  • Fuligin both a color and a textile having that color, associated with the Guild of Torturers in Gene Wolfe's book, The Shadow of the Torturer. The color is defined as "the color that is darker than black" and also as "the color of soot."
  • Hooloovoo a superintelligent shade of the color blue in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
  • Octarine the color of magic in the 'Discworld' fantasy novels, described as resembling a fluorescent greenish-yellow purple.
  • Jale and Ulfire new primary colors (shades of ultraviolet?) in A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel by David Lindsay.
  • Htun is a color similar to black only seen by gnomes in the book Fairest by Gail Carson Levine.
  • Sangoire is a color of red 'so dark and saturated it
    almost black', seen in the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushiel%27s_Legacy)[Kushiel Legacy] series.
  • Silentropae is the name given to the color of the cloud of debris following earth's destruction by asteroid 'Apophis' in the short story Silentropae by author Book Sim.
  • Celestewhite is a color invented by Carlos Argentino for his lengthy topographical poem intended to describe the entire world, in Jorge Lois Borges' The Aleph. It "actually suggests the sky, an element of utmost importance in the landscape of the Down Under."
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