Noun
local color (uncountable)
Aspects of a location that distinguish it from neighboring communities; the collective customs, mannerisms, fashions, artwork, accents or traditions of an area.
Recently I have felt just what the mood of colors means to me: it means that everything in this picture changes its local color according to the same principle and that thereby all muted tones blend in a unified relationship, one to the other. Paula Modersohn-Becker
The means of expression is the optical mixture of tones, of tints (of local color and the illuminating color: sun, oil lamp, gas, etc.), that is, of the lights and of their reactions (shadows) following the laws of contrast, of gradation, of irradiation. Georges Seurat
I think we Argentines can emulate Mohammed, can believe in the possibility of being Argentine without abounding in local color. Jorge Luis Borges
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. Hervey Allen
A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure-fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy. William Faulkner
However, she became known only as a regional local color writer and her literary qualities were overlooked. Source: Internet