diff --git a/doc/users/next_whats_new/2019-02-17-AL.rst b/doc/users/next_whats_new/2019-02-17-AL.rst
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/doc/users/next_whats_new/2019-02-17-AL.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+`Collection` gained the ``c`` alias for the ``color`` property
+``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
+
+For consistency with functions returning `Line2D`\s (e.g. `~Axes.plot`), the
+color of the artists returned by functions returning `Collection` subclasses
+(e.g. `~Axes.fill_between`) can now be set using the ``c`` shorthand (e.g.
+``ax.fill_between(..., c="red")``) -- except for `~Axes.scatter`, which already
+has a ``c`` parameter.
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/collections.py b/lib/matplotlib/collections.py
index af6f8ed12a98..86cae697e0aa 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/collections.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/collections.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 @cbook._define_aliases({
     "antialiased": ["antialiaseds", "aa"],
+    "color": ["c"],
     "edgecolor": ["edgecolors", "ec"],
     "facecolor": ["facecolors", "fc"],
     "linestyle": ["linestyles", "dashes", "ls"],