noncolor

plural noncolors · alternative noncolour

1. That which is not a color.

   Fake Steve Jobs is a perfectionist who is as insistent that his chai latte be served at 165 degrees as that his iMacs, iPods and iPhones be exactly the right noncolor.

   2007 October 7, Liesl Schillinger, “Books of Style”, in New York Times

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   Because of the overwhelming consensus, a test for ability to separate the names of colors from those of noncolors would be fatuous (figure 5-1). Few test takers will achieve less than perfect scores.

   1989, Patricia Sloane, The visual nature of color