What is the official definition of a ‘color change’ in card magic?

Antonio Diavolo

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There's a magicpedia?!?

Oh of course there is... hopefully with more accuracy though than its general counterpart.
It's fairly useful for some things but it gives a very brief description of each magic topic, sorta like Wikipedia does except a lot of them seem to have less detail.

Contrary to popular belief, although Wikipedia isn't an accepted "credible" source for papers and whatnot, it's usually pretty good for getting a surface level understanding of something. Most, if not all, articles have sources at the bottom you can check too.
 

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From The Amateur Magician’s Handbook:
Henry Hay said:
7. COLOR CHANGES

Color changes would be better called transformations, the name given them by Erdnase; but for some reason his term has never caught on, and color changes they remain.
They have nothing to do with color necessarily, being simply methods of visibly transforming one card into another, usually on the face of the deck.
 
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