I've adopted a rather inclusivist approach to collecting these terms: if it arguably refers to a color, my intent is to include it. Other thoughts or suggestions on this matter are welcome.
but it is not obvious that this is clearly the best answer to the question. My litmus test here has been when representing a normal or median or average instance of the color named by McCarthy as a color that a computer graphics program understands, does the color, when converted to an HSV representation, have a saturation value significantly different from zero? This is a meaningful test that rules out white, black, and gray as not being real colors in the sense that we tend to intuitively understand the word. In particular, I've decided not to list contexts for the colors black, white, and gray, largely because there are just so many and this document is something I've thrown together fairly quickly.
There are a number of interpretive decisions that get hidden by the data below no data set is neutral. (If you find something that's not documented here, please tweet at me or otherwise let me know so that I can fix this list.) Still, I'm human, too, and this is a rather hasty project I have probably missed a few instances. This is meant to be a complete list of all colors mentioned in McCarthy's novel, and I've made a strenuous attempt to document them all (and to check them against full-text searches with the Kindle edition, though I'm not happy about how the Kindle performs searches). This time, as I read the novel and prepare lessons on it, I've attempted to catalog these instances as completely as possible. During the several times I've taught The Road, many students have commented on the rare occurrence of colors in the novel's text and on the particular instances of colors that have stood out for them. Black and gray are by far the most common colors mentioned in the post-nuclear-holocaust world McCarthy describes.
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