Correct. there are some enemies that have colour in them and can give you a marginal benefit. the big slow moving sacks with flappy arms (can't describe it any better really) tend to have colour in them. Also the big monsters like the Pangolin, Whale, Worm and all of the brothers will give you colour if you defeat them however you usually end up with a loss. With the brother you'll probably get a large loss since it costs a ton of colour to make them kick the bucket.
Crimson helps though and using attack glyphs is more effective but against small fry the best advice is avoid them if need be or just drop some colour on them as some glyphs can miss which again makes them costly.
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