Help:Using colours

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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).

Video Help:Using colours

Overriding font colour

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

Note that you can't use the British spelling, "colour", in this context.

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:#0000FF">blue writing</span> shows as blue writing

Template font colour

Template:Font color, or its redirect Template:Font colour, can also be used.

{{Font colour|fontcolour|backgroundcolour|Your text here}}

Maps Help:Using colours

Colour generation guide

• The method used for selecting the colours for various top-level pages, e.g. Main Page, Community Portal, Contents, and Help:Contents.
  The 3 colours are generated using the HSV colour space, then translated into RGB.

• Easily generate similar palettes, from different starting hues, using colorblender.com

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Wikimedia colour schemes

Wikipedia

Wikipedia uses this colour scheme on its Main Page.

Note: the colour for the border on the lighter boxes is also the colour of the backgrounds of the darker (title) boxes.

And additionally on the Community Portal:

Additional 3-colour palettes using this same generation scheme are at the top of the talk page. In the Monobook skin, the background colour of Wikipedia pages is #F8FCFF. In the Vector skin, the background colour on all pages is #FFFFFF.

Commons

The Wikimedia Commons uses this colour scheme on commons:Main Page and commons:Help:Contents. Differing from the English Wikipedia, Commons does not use an extra, darker colour for bordering the header. Also, the colour sets are not derived from a hue the way the above table does.

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See also

Templates

• To colour text and background:
  • Template:Font color
• To provide example squares of colour:
  • Template:Colorsample
  • Template:Swatch
  • Template:Swatch-inline

Related help pages

• Wikipedia:Accessibility § Color
• Category:Articles with images not understandable by color blind users
• Wikipedia:Link color
• Wikipedia:How to reduce colors for saving a JPEG as PNG
• Wikipedia:Infobox colours - inactive
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Usability/Color - inactive

Somewhat related pages

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting)#Color
• Wikipedia:Template standardisation
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Color

Encyclopedia articles

• Color tool
• Web colors
• List of colors

Source of the article : Wikipedia