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I can use code like this in my preamble without importing the xcolor package:

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=magenta,urlcolor=blue]{hyperref}

I want to know where these colors magenta and blue are defined.

I checked http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/doc/manual.pdf but there is no occurrence of the word blue in this documentation.

Where can I find the comprehensive list of colors supported by hyperref by default?

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With option colorlinks, hyperref will load the color package, and you will get the colors predefined by this package which is a rather small set:

black, white, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow.

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The literal answer to the question you asked is: in the package hycolor.

The pragmatic answer is: if you need color names, \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor}. As of 2020, you can load it either before or after hyperref. This gives you all the standard color names from HTML/CSS/SVG (camel-case and remove spaces, such as SkyBlue). You can look up how to get more colors than that in the manual.

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