Proposal to Rename Albino and Melanistic Pokemon

white colored implies all albino pokemon are white which is not true There are quite a few non white albinos like lucario and shinite is too simialr to shiny

Just keep the names. It wouldn't make sense to change the names everyone has gotten used to. And personally it'd be enough to drive me off the site.

i really like the proposal for pastel and shaded for the new albino/melan terms. pastel implies light, low saturation colors and shaded implies darkened without necessarily being black.

Honestly I like the current names better, but here are my suggestions for names: Albino - Pale Melan - Void (these are my suggestions for names, although I prefer the current ones)

Looking at the list, most of the suggestions are kinda poor and just don't sound right. The only two that do stand out to me personally are Aurora and Umbra.

I did some research of my own and wanted to know if Leviora sounded decent for Albino, and Myrkur for Melan. Leviora is Latin for "lighter" as albinos are, well, lighter versions of their species. Myrkur is Icelandic for "dark". Same logic as the first one. Rather simple but they both sound kinda cool.

"warm" or "warmed" for melans maybe? darker colors feel kinda warmer if that makes sense. the only issue is that it may sound like it implies warmly hues (i.e. tints of orange, red, brown, yellow, etc). in that case, toasted is already suggested by someone else on the list who was also thinking pretty much the same thing i was when i was thinking "warm." and how about "ashen" for albinos? whatever you decide for albinos, it might be cool to have the name of melans somehow relate to both shiny and (the new) albino names, since melans are basically what happen when you get... both! a name that somewhat goes along with this while also still describing the appearance of the pokémon would be super cool. idk how specifically you could do that though honestly

I think albino and melanistic work fine. The real-world definitions of these words simply mean a lack of (albino) or excessive amount (melanistic) of pigment, not necessarily completely black and white. While the first thing you probably think of is an animal with pure white or black fur, there are times (in humans and otherwise) where that's just not the case.

what about iridescent for albino and blacklight for melanistic? (as in the blacklight posters that use dark colors with bright colors)

To be honest I would want to keep them as is. I don't mean to offend anyone but it could take some getting-use to the new ones, and some of them are too complicated and fancy, or simple and plain.