Change email text color in moderncv

Question

I'm having an issue trying to change the text color of the email in moderncv.

I defined my own color like this :

\definecolor{mycolor}{RGB}{0,0,0}

Then I add the email like this :

\email{\textcolor{mycolor}{[email protected]}}

main.tex, line 45 Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `rgb(0,0,0)'. See the xcolor package documentation for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.45 \makecvtitle Try typing to proceed If that doesn't work, type X to quit.

If I try it on the phone instead, it works

\phone[mobile]{\textcolor{mycolor}{+123456789}}

But I have no idea why it doesn't work for email

Answer 1

You can change the patch I used in your last question to solve this problem too.

Add the code

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\makecvhead} % <cmd>
  {\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@email}}{}{\makenewline\emailsymbol\emaillink{\@email}}} % <search>
  {\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@email}}{}{\makenewline\textcolor{mycolor}{\emailsymbol\emaillink{\@email}}}%
  } % <replace>
  {}{} % <success><failure>
\makeatother

to your preamble. So with the following MWE

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

\moderncvstyle[right]{classic}
\moderncvcolor{burgundy}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{multicol}
\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{2.8cm}
\renewcommand*{\namefont}{\fontsize{24}{0}\bfseries\upshape}
\firstname{\vspace{2mm}John\vspace{2mm}}
\lastname{Doe}

\address{24 Groove Street, LA, USA}
\email{[email protected]}
\photo[50pt][1pt]{photo}

\definecolor{mycolor}{RGB}{0,0,0}
\phone[mobile]{\textcolor{mycolor}{+123456789}}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\makecvhead} % <cmd>
  {\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@email}}{}{\makenewline\emailsymbol\emaillink{\@email}}} % <search>
  {\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@email}}{}{\makenewline\textcolor{mycolor}{\emailsymbol\emaillink{\@email}}}%
  } % <replace>
  {}{} % <success><failure>
\makeatother


\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\end{document}

you get the result: