Help:Colour

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Colour is a great tool for helping to make your community stand out as well as better match your wiki's topic and theme.

Step by step
Colour can be added to your community in a couple of different places. For example, you can use unique colours in the theme designer to customise your look, or add colour to your community's templates via CSS.

The most common way to define a colour is to use its name or hex code. To use a particular colour, take the name or hex code below and add it where appropriate. If for example you want to add it as a button colour in the Theme Designer, copy the hex code of that colour, then add it to the input field on the customise tab.

Hex values are generally more flexible than colour names as they allow a very wide range of shades - more information about how these work can be found on Wikipedia.

Colour names
There are two main types of colour names that are preferred, HTML and X11.

HTML color names
The HTML 4.01 specification defines sixteen named colours, as follows (names are defined in this context to be case-insensitive; the table is alphabetically ordered):

These 16 were also specified as sRGB and included in the HTML 3.0 specification.

Fluorescent Colours
The neon colours are a typical type of colours that glow on certain pages depending on what colour the theme is used through Theme Designer.

X11 colour names
In addition, a wide range of "X11 colours" are defined by web browsers.

A large, helpful list of usable colour names and equivalent hex codes can be found on Wikipedia.