Help:Text color
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It is possible to change the color of your text, however this can negatively affect
- the readability of the text, especially low vision (often older readers) and individuals with colorblindness (1 out of every 12 men and 1 out of every 200 women have a color vision deficiency.)
- the ability of individuals with no vision to understand what you are tryping to convey by color
Please read Saintapedia:Accessibility#Color before adding color to an Saintapedia article.
Editors
Enhanced editor
Enhanced editor allows two different ways to add the color.
- Set text color by using
{{color|Navy|TEXT}}
or- <span style="color:Navy"> TEXT </span>
- Set background color by using
{{background|Silver|TEXT}}
or- <span style="background:Silver"> TEXT </span>
- Set both by using
- Template (recommended):
{{background|White|Fuchsia|TEXT}}
or - <span style="color:White; background:Fuchsia"> TEXT </span>
- Template (recommended):
VisualEditor
Read Templates to see how to add Color or Background templates using VisualEditor.
Color Tables and tools
Accessible
General
- Table background colors on Metawiki
- Complete HTML True Color Chart
- W3's standard color names and an interlink table of finding shades and mixing colors.
- A color picker - use a dynamic tool to find a hex code for a color you select
- RGB to Hex converter and links to other color converters