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This page is about the use of colors in articles. For the civility essay dealing with colors, see Misplaced Pages:Don't edit war over the colour of templates. For guidelines on color use, see Misplaced Pages:Accessibility § Color.

To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. bronze is #CD7F32) or HTML colour names (e.g. red).

Overriding font colour

To make a word have colour, use: <span style="color:hex triplet or colour name">text</span>

Examples:

  • <span style="color:red">red writing</span> shows as red writing
  • <span style="color:#0f0">green writing</span> shows as green writing
  • <span style="color:#0000f1">blue writing</span> shows as blue writing

Template:Fontcolor can also be used. Examples:

  • {{fontcolor|green|this is about plants}}: this is about plants:(it appears in green text).
  • {{fontcolor||red|text in red background}}: text in red background:(no parameters are used for the text color, only for the background)
  • {{fontcolor|red|yellow|red text with yellow background}}: red text with yellow background

Wikimedia colour schemes

Misplaced Pages

Misplaced Pages uses this colour scheme on its Main Page.

Please note that the colour for the border on the lighter boxes is also the colour of the backgrounds of the darker (title) boxes.
background:#f5fffa border:#cef2e0   background:#cef2e0 border:#a3bfb1  
background:#f5faff border:#cedff2   background:#cedff2 border:#a3b0bf  
background:#faf5ff border:#ddcef2   background:#ddcef2 border:#afa3bf  
background:#fcfcfc border:#cccccc  

And additionally on the Community Portal:

background:#fffaf5 border:#f2e0ce   background:#f2e0ce border:#bfb1a3  

Additional 3-colour palettes using this same generation scheme are at the top of the talk page. The background colour of Misplaced Pages pages is #F8FCFF.

Commons

The Wikimedia Commons uses this colour scheme on commons:Main Page and commons:Help:Contents.

background colour: #d0e5f5

background colour: #f1f5fc

border colour: #abd5f5 		background colour: #faecc8

background colour: #faf6ed

border colour: #fad67d

See also

External links

wikia colour chart

Category: