The notion that common colors of melanoma are "blue-black, red, white, and brown" is fallacious. Macules of melanoma usually are characterized by nuances of brown. Even more elevated lesions of melanoma generally are devoid of blue, black, red, and white. In short, color often is not the key to recognition of melanoma; the key is a constellation of morphologic findings, only one of which is color. The word "irregular" for pigmentation and for the border of a lesion is confusing because no lucid definition of "regular" has ever been set forth. By the time that satellite lesions, nodularity, ulceration, and bleeding have occurred, the melanoma almost always has metastasized.