diff --git a/src/wp-admin/js/user-profile.js b/src/wp-admin/js/user-profile.js
index 95847310bf..b107d98779 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/js/user-profile.js
+++ b/src/wp-admin/js/user-profile.js
@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@
 
 			// Set color scheme
 			if ( user_id === current_user_id ) {
-				// Load the colors stylesheet
+				// Load the colors stylesheet.
+				// The default color scheme won't have one, so we'll need to create an element.
+				if ( 0 === $stylesheet.length ) {
+					$stylesheet = $( '<link rel="stylesheet" />' ).appendTo( 'head' );
+				}
 				$stylesheet.attr( 'href', $this.children( '.css_url' ).val() );
 
 				// repaint icons
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php b/src/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php
index 874e1a48d8..698352cff8 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/class.wp-styles.php
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ class WP_Styles extends WP_Dependencies {
 			$media = 'all';
 
 		$href = $this->_css_href( $obj->src, $ver, $handle );
+		if ( empty( $href ) ) {
+			// Turns out there is nothing to print.
+			return true;
+		}
 		$rel = isset($obj->extra['alt']) && $obj->extra['alt'] ? 'alternate stylesheet' : 'stylesheet';
 		$title = isset($obj->extra['title']) ? "title='" . esc_attr( $obj->extra['title'] ) . "'" : '';
 
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/general-template.php b/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
index f6f226018b..642aa722cf 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/general-template.php
@@ -2103,7 +2103,7 @@ function register_admin_color_schemes() {
 	$suffix .= defined( 'SCRIPT_DEBUG' ) && SCRIPT_DEBUG ? '' : '.min';
 
 	wp_admin_css_color( 'fresh', _x( 'Default', 'admin color scheme' ),
-		admin_url( "css/colors$suffix.css" ),
+		false,
 		array( '#222', '#333', '#0074a2', '#2ea2cc' ),
 		array( 'base' => '#999', 'focus' => '#2ea2cc', 'current' => '#fff' )
 	);
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/script-loader.php b/src/wp-includes/script-loader.php
index c91fd11a34..6e4488d16a 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/script-loader.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/script-loader.php
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ function wp_default_styles( &$styles ) {
 	$styles->add( 'dashicons', "/wp-includes/css/dashicons$suffix.css" );
 
 	// Register "meta" stylesheet for admin colors. All colors-* style sheets should have the same version string.
+
 	$styles->add( 'colors', true, array( 'wp-admin', 'buttons', 'open-sans', 'dashicons' ) );
 
 	// do not refer to this directly, the right one is queued by the above "meta" colors handle
@@ -695,6 +696,10 @@ function wp_style_loader_src( $src, $handle ) {
 		$parsed = parse_url( $src );
 		$url = $color->url;
 
+		if ( ! $url ) {
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		if ( isset($parsed['query']) && $parsed['query'] ) {
 			wp_parse_str( $parsed['query'], $qv );
 			$url = add_query_arg( $qv, $url );
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/version.php b/src/wp-includes/version.php
index fe4d11af4c..ce01297b18 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '3.9-alpha-src';
+$wp_version = '3.9-alpha-27111-src';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.