In the first stage of healing, some clear fluid oozes from the wound. This fluid helps clean the area.
That is what normal looks like: clear, and in a modest amount. It is part of healing, not a problem, and it has a job.
Other colors are ones to report. For a surgical incision, contact your surgeon if the drainage coming from or around the incision increases or becomes thick, tan, green, or yellow, or smells bad. That is pus. For an ischemic ulcer, more drainage than before, or drainage that is yellowish or cloudy, are signs of infection to contact your provider about.
For any wound, contact your provider right away if you have redness, increased pain, or yellow or green pus, or excessive clear fluid around the injury.
That last part is the one patients miss. Some clear fluid is normal. A lot of clear fluid is a reason to contact your provider right away.
Keep this in proportion: not all wounds with fluid or smell are infected, but changes over time are important. Pus or a change in the wound fluid may suggest infection.
So the useful question is less what color the fluid is today, and more whether it has changed from what it was.