@pan v fair. it's an awkward question to phrase because the English word most directly similar to the inspiring Spanish word sadly has dreadful associations. the not-counting-as-a-color part because it some might consider "white" or "black" a color and others might not (or, one is but the other isn't)
i was prompted to ask this by the Spanish word "colorado/a", which is analogous to "coloured" (minus the associations that has in English...), but generally specifically means "red" rather than just having some unspecified colour(s)

@alyssa oh fascinating, it really is a default colour! that sounds hard to phrase indeed. i wonder if that's related to the idea that humans everywhere developed names for certain colours first, like red, out of a sort of necessity, or a natural progression from practical to frivolous