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I tried to get a random color with xcolor and tikz:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[xetex, rgb]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\pgfmathsetseed{1}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\xdefinecolor{MyColor}{hsb}{rand, 1.0, 1.0}
\node[fill=MyColor]{Hello};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
But this does not work, it reports the following error
Missing number, treated as zero
Does anybody know how to get random colors? thanks.
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfmathparse{rnd}
\xdefinecolor{MyColor}{hsb}{\pgfmathresult, 1.0, 1.0}
\node[fill=MyColor]{Hello};
\end{tikzpicture}
ERROR: Package pgfbase Error: Unsupported color model 'hsb'. Sorry..
– Suzanne Soy
Sep 4 '13 at 10:33
\usepackage[rgb]{xcolor} for most documentclass, but that doesn't work with beamer, since it already loads xcolor with other options, so one needs to \documentclass[rgb]{beamer} instead.
– Suzanne Soy
Sep 4 '13 at 12:30
\documentclass[xcolor={rgb}]{beamer}
– egreg
Sep 4 '13 at 12:31
The egre solution gives you a Pseudorandom color.
If you use pdftex or one of his son, I suggest you this solution, where for every compilation you will obtain a different color.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfmathparse{rnd}
\xdefinecolor{MyColor}{rgb}{\pgfmathresult, 1.0, 1.0}
\node[fill=MyColor](A) at (0,0){Hello};
\edef\R{\pdfuniformdeviate 255}
\edef\G{\pdfuniformdeviate 255}
\edef\B{\pdfuniformdeviate 255}
\xdefinecolor{MyColor2}{RGB}{\R,\G,\B}
\node[fill=MyColor2](A2) at (0,-.5){Hello};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
