Template:Colors

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Usage

Guts: <span style="background: {{{2}}}; color: {{{1}}}">{{{3}}}</span>

Sets foreground and background colors of a given text. They can be specified by name or in the format #dddddd (RGB hex triplet).

Unless in the case of personal use on a user page, use this template with great caution:

• a poor contrast may make the text difficult or impossible to read
• the contrast can be experienced as even poorer in the case of color blindness
• links have a color according to user settings; they become invisible if this color is equal to the background color.

Examples

{{colors|white|black|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|yellow|grey|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|blue|silver|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|grey|yellow|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|black|aqua|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|#ffffff|#000000|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

{{colors|#aa0000|#009999|From [[Wikisource]], the free [[w:library|library]].}} gives: From Wikisource, the free library.

Standard color names

The HTML 4.01 specification defines sixteen named colors, as follows:

Color	Hexadecimal	Color	Hexadecimal
black	#000000	silver	#c0c0c0
gray	#808080	white	#ffffff
maroon	#800000	red	#ff0000
purple	#800080	fuchsia	#ff00ff
green	#008000	lime	#00ff00
olive	#808000	yellow	#ffff00
navy	#000080	blue	#0000ff
teal	#008080	aqua	#00ffff

See also:

• web colors
• non-dithering safe colors