Let's have different colors for dialog spoken by different characters, such as Holmes and Watson. That way I won't have to reread the text to figure out who said what.
That would be nice. It's often really hard to tell with long conversations in novels who is speaking. There's a tenancy to have the speaker implied rather than implicit for long conversations, and color would be a good solution. I wonder if this is ever used in cinema and / or theater.
It's not common, but some anime fansub groups make the subtitle text match the hair color of the character that is speaking.
This would be fantastic for reading to the kids. At the moment I have to scan ahead to work out which voice to put on.
"Even when reading a novel myself, it bothers me when I don't learn the speaker until after the I have read the quoted phrase, like in this comment" said WillAbides
This is actually one of the big issues with RSVP techniques like Spritz. When you can't see the paragraph structure, it can be very difficult to track who's talking.
I was taught that the protocol is for the speakers to alternate if no other information is given in the lines. In all other cases you need to restart the speech block with something like "Watson continued, "..."".
Sure, but sometimes I get a little lost - my eyes wandered away from the page, I got distracted and started thinking about something else, or there were too many back-and-forths for me to keep it straight.