Colored photosensitive resin composition, colored spacer, color filter, and liquid crystal display device

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a colored photosensitive resin composition for ensuring the electric retention rate of the liquid crystals, as well as affording excellent formation of desired shapes, control of difference in level, and cohesion to the substrate, in a method for batch formation of colored spacers of different heights by a photolithography process. The invention relates to a colored photosensitive resin composition employed for batch formation of colored spacers of different heights by a photolithography process, containing (a) a coloring agent, (b) an alkali-soluble resin, (c) a photopolymerization initiator, (d) an ethylenically unsaturated compound, (e) a solvent, and (f) a dispersant.