The phrase "alternating colors" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a pattern or design where two or more colors are used in succession or in a repeated manner.
Example: "The artist created a stunning mural with alternating colors of blue and yellow that caught everyone's attention."
Alternatives: "changing colors" or "fluctuating colors".
With stripes -- a single plane of alternating colors -- such a reading becomes impossible.
Stir in peas and place strips of peppers, alternating colors, around pan like spokes on a wheel.
Make like Remy and arrange the zucchini, squash and eggplant slices by alternating colors into whatever fanciful pattern you think will get the most likes on Instagram.
It is always the same stream, though each drawing is slightly different because of the use of alternating colors and materials — ink, crayon and charcoal.
Arrange each variety of tomato in alternating colors in a circle around a serving platter, then place the baby tomatoes in the center.
But periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares.
The micromorphological structure of iron manganese cutan was a thin black film with alternating color of red and brown, and about 1 mm thick of soil particles.
For miles around, night-sky gazers can now feast on alternating color images of American flags, rainbows and, of course, triple cherries reflecting off Harrah's new 25-story blue glass tower.
The approximate locations of each CCD, from S0 at the left to S5 at the right, are shown by the alternating color bars for the MEG (upper bar) and HEG (lower bar).
Chess is played on a chessboard, a square board divided into 64 squares (eight-by-eight) of alternating color, which is similar to that used in draughts (checkers).
The experimenters looked at what happened when balls of alternating color were drawn in turn, a sequence that does not favor either basket.
