Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-43971605-20200129223825/@comment-45762951-20200609153232

Anon·chan wrote: For a long time, I've been very confused what Mahiru's and Shinoa's hair colors are. In the light novels, they've been described as gray or ashen. But the manga covers and on covers for LNs (also on color illustrations for both), both Shinoa's and Mahiru's hair is clearly purplish/lavender. Not gray. Either I'm colorblind but basically: what is their actual hair color? Both media seems to mix them up.

Note: didn't mention anime because the anime is not canon.

I know this is a dumb question but i honestly wanna know what you guys think. It's artistic expression. Gurens hair is black but you can clearly see some blue added. Mahiru' hair definitely has gray in there. It's just the artist coloring style. Your not color blind though.

It's like if your hair turns slightly red or orange when hit by direct evening sunlight but that may not be you actual hair color, you could be  just straight blond. Or at night your hair can appear black but it's actually brown. Or the same thing with water, water isn't actually blue but reflects the sky.

The artist probably didn't  want to use dark gray for when the shade of the hair gets dark. Probably to keep it from fading in the background. As the hair gets lighter it shows more of a grayish tone. It's like when the rasengan for Naruto was originally yellow but they changed it to blue. The artist wanted to express wind as breezy cool.

Plus notice that the artist limits the color pallete to simply  shades of purple ,blue, red and white.