Related:

• book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover.
  Many of these are described in this lexicon under their own entries....
• Aluminum Book n. [MIT] "Common LISP: The Language", by Guy L.
  Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990)....
• Purple Book: n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
  The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender....
• Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• Red Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
  QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
• Cinderella Book [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
  So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....
• Cinderella Book: [CMU] n. "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979).
  So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it....
• ainbow series: n. Any of several series of technical manuals distinguished by cover color.
  The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see {Orange Book}, {crayola books})...
• Aluminum Book: [MIT] n. "Common LISP: The Language", by Guy L.
  Steele Jr. (Digital Press, first edition 1984, second edition 1990)....