# Revision colors > 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. Also known as colored pages, revision marks ## In practice 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. ## Official sources & context Sources reviewed Jul 29, 2026 The published color sequence is a production convention, not a certification of a script or software product. Confirm the production office's current delivery requirements. - [WGA — Screenwriters handbook](https://www.wga.org/members/employment-resources/screenwriters-handbook) [See production workflows](https://www.inkwell.software/plot) ## Common questions ### Do I need revision colors for a spec? 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. ### Does Inkwell support the full color sequence? Yes — the industry production sequence is available in revision mode. Confirm whether your delivery workflow also needs physically tinted or revised-pages-only output. ### What happens after the named colors run out? 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. ### Are digital drafts still "blue pages"? 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. ## Related terms - [Locked script](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/locked-script): A shooting draft whose page and scene numbers are frozen so every department shares one numbering scheme. After lock, changes become marked revisions instead of silently reshuffling the whole script. - [A-pages](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/a-pages): Inserted pages on a locked script that avoid renumbering everything after them — material between 27 and 28 becomes 27A, 27B, and so on. - [WGA-compliant screenplay formatting](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/wga-formatting): Professional screenplay layout that conforms to WGA and industry submission conventions — familiar margins, element spacing, pagination, and production behavior that let readers focus on the story. - [White pages](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/white-pages): The first locked generation of a shooting script — white paper (or the unmarked digital baseline) before colored revision rounds begin. --- Canonical page: