Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `ForestGreen'

Question

I am using the following packages in my files Latex sources:

\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{color}

\newcommand{\ricardo}[1]{\colorbox{ForestGreen}{\color{white}\textsf{\textbf{Ricardo}}} \textcolor{ForestGreen}{#1}}

And to mark my notes in the text, I use the command:

\ricardo{text....}

How should I do to make Latex display my notes correctly?

Answer 1

The xcolor package is an extension of the color package, so I don't understand why you loaded the color package twice along with the xcolor package. Moreover, according to page 7 of the xcolor documentation usenames is obsolete. I cleaned up the code to this:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\newcommand{\ricardo}[1]{\colorbox{ForestGreen}{\color{white}   \textsf{\textbf{Ricardo}}} \textcolor{ForestGreen}{#1}}
\begin{document}
\ricardo{This should work.}
\end{document}

and the resulting output compiles without a problem:

Answer 2

sorry I can't comment as I'm just a noob and I need reputation. I tried out the command in my document and it works perfect. Check the image below.

In my beamer, I had declared something like \documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer} while the document that I use based on tufte declares \usepackage{xcolor} in the .sty file.

Could you try renaming the third line of the code into \usepackage[usenames, dvipsnames]{xcolor} ?

Answer 3

A more general solution may simply be to define the color explicitly.

\definecolor{ForestGreen}{RGB}{34,139,34}