1) Choice and use of colors 2) Color 3) Colour 4) Colouration 5) Quality 6) The timbre of a musical sound 7) Timber 8) Timbre 9) Tone Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/coloration
(from the article `musical notation`) As the system of mensural notation evolved, another device, coloration, came into use. If a composer wished to render a potentially perfect note ... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/112
in biology, the general appearance of an organism as determined by the quality and quantity of light that is reflected or emitted from its surfaces. ... [33 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/112
Any change in the character of sound (such as an overemphasis on certain tones) that reduces naturalness. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21058
Col`or·a'tion noun The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. « The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration . Darwin. » Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/112