Template:Colors

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Description

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

Syntax

{{Colors|<text color>|<background color>|<text>}}

Code

Guts:

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

Standard color names

The HTML 4.01 specification (for details see Wikipedia:HTML) 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

Notes

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 colour blindnes
• links have a color according to user settings; they become invisible if this color is equal to the background color.

Sample output

{{colors|#ffffff|#000000|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|#aa0000|#009999|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|white|black|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|yellow|grey|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|blue|silver|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|grey|yellow|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

{{colors|black|aqua|From [[wikipedia:|Wikipedia]], the free [[wikipedia:encyclopedia|]].}} gives: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

See also

• {{Fontcolor}} – background/text color or change text color only if only 2 parameters (text in free span)
• Wikipedia:web colors
• non-dithering safe colors

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