Also known as colored pages · revision marks
The industry color sequence (white, blue, pink, yellow, and onward) used to mark each revision pass on a locked shooting script so the set knows which pages are current.
Color is a shared calendar for paper and PDFs on a locked shooting script. "We're on yellow" means a specific generation of pages, not a vibe. The industry sequence (white, blue, pink, yellow, and onward) lets every department know which stack is current without rereading the whole book each morning.
Specs and early development drafts do not need revision colors. Colors matter once page and scene numbers are frozen for production. Using rainbow pages on a sales draft looks like costume production and can distract readers who only wanted a clean story read without paper logistics.
Inkwell includes the full production color sequence in revision mode. A PDF exported in revision mode prints an asterisk beside every revised line and the color and date in every page header. It does not produce tinted pages or A-pages, so confirm delivery expectations before you promise a physical color run to a coordinator.
No. Colors matter once a script is locked for production. Specs and early development drafts stay on a normal continuous draft without a color run.
Yes — the industry production sequence is available in revision mode. Confirm whether your delivery workflow also needs physically tinted or revised-pages-only output.
After tan, the sequence starts over: Inkwell labels the next generations Second Blue, Second Pink, and so on. Some offices name the repeat differently, so follow the production’s practice. The point is a shared generation label, not stopping at yellow forever.
Yes in production language — teams still say blue or pink for the revision generation even when everyone is on PDFs. The color name is the ledger entry, whether or not anyone prints tinted paper.
