Editing House of Leaves (section)

===Colors===
''House of Leaves'' includes frequent and seemingly systematic color changes.  While Danielewski leaves much of the interpretation of the choice of colors up to the reader, several distinct patterns emerge upon closer examination.<ref>{{Citation |last=Wittmershaus, Eric |title=Review of ''House of Leaves'' |date=2000-05-06 |url=http://www.flakmag.com/books/house.html |work=[[Flak Magazine]] |access-date=2007-02-10 |archive-date=2007-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210125300/http://www.flakmag.com/books/house.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Notable examples include:
* The word "house" is colored blue (gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for ''red editions''). In many places throughout the book, it is offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times. Foreign-language equivalents of ''house'', such as the [[German language|German]] {{lang|de|Haus}} and the [[French language|French]] {{lang|fr|maison}}, are also blue. These colorizations even extend to the [[Random House]] publishing information on the book's copyright page and back cover.
* In all colored editions, the word ''[[minotaur]]'' and all [[strikethrough|struckthrough]] passages are colored red.
* The phrase "A Novel" on the book's cover appears in [[purple]].  The phrase "First Edition" on the copyright page appears in struckthrough purple.  The phrase "what I'm remembering now" appears in struckthrough purple in Chapter XXI.