Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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How to make a striped, colored circle in Tikz?
I want to make something like this
How can I do it?
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Problems in table using \hhline
Consider the following MWE
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hhline}
\newcommand{\firstrow}[1]{%
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\cellcolor{blue!25} #1}
}
\...
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How to use xcolor color names in tikzpicture style?
I want to use color names like MidnightBlue in a style for a tikzpicture to e.g. fill it with a specific color, is this possible? Or am I limited to the other style (red!30 etc.)?
This MWE fails with ...
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How to get chapter title in header the same color when chapter title itself is in multiple fonts with different colors?
Assume I need to sandwich English words in chapter titles which are mainly in Burmese. I want those sandwiched English words in red color. However I want to have all the headers text only in gray ...
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How to define a color that matches inserted PNG
I am trying to use cbox and have the colors equal to the colors on the inserted figure. I opened the figure using the windows paint program and used the color picker to determine the rgb values of ...
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Changing textcolor in revtex4-2
Since we are editing some article and in order to see everyone's contribution, we want to keep track of the changes by coloring text. However, \userpackage{colorx} and \textcolor{color} are not ...
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Coloring a world map
I'm trying to create a graphic with tikz on latex/overleaf of a world map based on regionally disaggregated data, so I want e.g. all countries that belong to Eastern Europe to have the same colour, ...
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Bright Colors in Latex
Is there a package that helps produce colors like the one in the picture
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How to fill a pgfgantt bar with a color gradient which fades from the center of the bar?
I'm trying to figure out how to fill a pgfgantt bar with a horizontal color gradient which fades from the center outwards. Unfortunately i'm having no luck!
I was wondering whether anyone knew how to ...
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How do you go over the [0,1] range for Colors
When I go over the !100 in shading, it gives me an error, however it still works. And simply, my question is: how do I get rid of this annoying error?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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Selecting colors which are evenly spaced around a color wheel
In the following diagram
I would like to assign colors to the rectangles in each layer with colors from around a color wheel so that the colors in adjacent layers are separated by 144 degrees. For ...
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Why setting point meta destroys the data in contour lua?
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I'm trying to change the color of a contour plot (contour lua) by setting point meta. However, instead of using the information from the plot, I want to use another function to color them. ...
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How to add color to text snippets in modified verbatim environment
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{framed,color,verbatim}
\definecolor{shadecolor}{rgb}{.9, .9, .9}
\newenvironment{code}%
{\snugshade\verbatim}%
{\endverbatim\endsnugshade}
I have a new ...
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Change color in Prerex, chart
How do I change the color from Yellow to say, gray. Also I don't like the rounded boxes, and the thick boundary. The package documentation doesn't clearly say what I must do either.
\documentclass{...
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Compilation error when using &
Code
Consider the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\tegn}[1]{\mathcolor{red}{#1}}
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
1
&= 1 \\
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How to Underline (with Linebreaking) within Contiguously Highlighted Text Using Soul
I would like to use the command \ul within a block of text that is contiguously highlighted using the macro contained in the following code:
\documentclass[12pt,openany]{book}
\usepackage{soul}
\...
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How can I define a more "complex" font color?
I am trying to define the font color for a title and I want to set some more complex color like the one that is shown in the picture below:
I know how to select a single color at a time however is ...
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Spacing before and after \color{}
I want to define a command, \makered, that makes things red. Consider three candidates:
1: \newcommand{\makered}[1]{{\color{red}#1}}
2: \newcommand{\makered}[1]{\colorlet{savedcol}{.}\color{red}#1\...
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Extending a John Kormylo Answer for Color Shading a Portion of a Paragraph to Produce Bold Text as Well
This post is an extension of the question posed in How to Contiguously Shade a Portion of a Paragraph with Color
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\colorlet{soulred}{red!25}
\...
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Table Background color with toprule
I want make a table with background color, when I am using \toprule,\midrule and \bottomrule I have a white space after the rule. I want to fill the color of rule below space. MWE is below
\...
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Color or Colour Table Based on the Cell Value for a Specific Column Only
I am new to latex and struggling with the concepts of how to colour cells in a table based on the cell value for a specific column only. I am creating a latex template that will be used for an ...
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How to use multiple colours in a single vertical line of a table?
I have this table, based on this:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{hhline}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{2pt}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
& & \...
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Is it possible to reference the bullet/definition color in Beamer in a theme-independent way?
I would like to highlight some words in an example block using the same color that is used for definitions and bullet points. Is this color saved as a variable name by Beamer, and can it be accessed ...
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Beamer Change Formatting of Notes
I use the documentclass beamer and would like to have all my notes of the PDF in bold and red (- or a better solution on this problem).
Situation: I have notes once in a while when they seem important ...
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Pandoc changes color from template after cursive
I am using pandoc to convert different documents into pdf. I have a template to include with the flag --include-in-header ~/path/to/template/pandoc_format_darkmode.tex -V geometry:a4paper -V geometry:...
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Coloured table cells not showing
In the following table, the colors are not showing:
\documentclass[
11pt,english, onehalfspacing, nolistspacing, liststotoc, headsepline, oneside, chapterinoneline, reqno, a4paper, toctotoc, table]{...
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How to have separate colours for chapter, section etc. on even/odd pages with scrlayer-scrpage?
I have provided a minimal working example in the following, where I couldn't implement the change of colour of headers such as chapter or section depending on whether the page is odd or even.
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Specifying RGB color in a colorbox - tcolorbox package
I tried to specify a RGB color in a color box in this way, but it doesn't recognize RGB, only rgb that is a different thing.
How can I specify a RGB color in a color box?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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More space below the section title
I'm having some troubles to add space in my section title. Some of my code is this:
\documentclass[11pt, oneside]{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{bleudefrance}{rgb}{0.19, 0.55, 0.91}
\...
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Change the background color of Tikz nodes?
I'm using the fit option to draw a rectangle that fits a few nodes
but when I add the fill option to change the color of this rectangle
the nodes inside disappear.
\documentclass[border=10pt]{...
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Rotate Labels and Change colors of tikz barchart
I am creating a bar chart using tikzpicture like so:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\title{test}
\author{}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\...
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How to make the template bolder/stronger without \textbf or \mathbf?
Question:
How can I make the display on Beamer to be bolder/stronger, at least like from latex2png???
Or should I just look for different Beamer template??
You can see here in my video on Youtube, ...
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How to Indent Highlighted (with Margins Adjusted) Paragraphs with Mdframed
Consider the code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\parindent 10pt
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[3]
\begin{mdframed}[...
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Invoking hyperlinks color
Is there a variable which allows me to invoke the color of internal links within a document?
Minimum working example, where I am looking for a \linkcolor command:
\hypersetup{colorlinks=true,linkcolor=...
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How to set background color for long in-text citations with line wrapping?
Normally for revised-version, the revised text should be highlighted. When it contains long in-text citations which span more than one line, the background color will extend to the margin, and ...
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Changing the colour of equations produce in LaTeXiT
I am using LaTeXiT on my Mac to produce things like equations (both singular and as align-environments) and matrices as images which I can then copy and paste into a PowerPoint presentation. I want ...
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How to Contiguously Shade a Portion of a Paragraph with Color
Consider the code:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor,soul}
\colorlet{soulred}{red!25}
\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\LARGE
\begingroup
\sethlcolor{soulred}%
Here is some text. \hl{...
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adding a shade background in running text of the middle of a paragraph
I need a background shade in the running text of middle of a paragraph, I tried through \usepackage{tikz}, I am getting background but text is not breaking and running beyond the text width.
How to ...
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Prettify the text heatmap in latex code
I am trying to highlight the text tokens based on the value given to that particular token.
The input data looks like this:
raw_sentence = '''the USS Ronald Reagan - an aircraft carrier docked in ...
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xltabular colors the table caption when using rowcolors
I'm creating a table using rowscolor from xcolor package, but the caption is treated as a row and it's colored. How to avoid this behavior ?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\...
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Log the RGB components of a color defined using xcolor syntax
I'd like LaTeX to print to its log the RGB components of a color that I've defined using the convenient xcolor syntax. E.g.,
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\Huge\...
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Change the color of the correct option in beamer
Command \True in package ex_test to color the correct answer in a question during the slide show. But I need to use two frames to do that, one without \True, one with \True. How can I do it with only ...
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How to color the table in latex?
I would to import the following table in latex with color, how do I make it possible? Many thanks in advance! The colors don't have to be exactly the same.
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Make a color gradient with tikz
Where I can find the section about color gradient in the tikz documentation?
Specifically, I would like to make the gradient you see in the outermost ring of this image. Forget the rest, I can easily ...
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Strange RGB color in LaTeX: xcolor + definecolor [duplicate]
I'm trying to use the RGB color (0, 127, 255) in Latex, but I got another color (it seems cyan). I tried it in Texmaker and in Overleaf, the result is the same. How can I overcome this problem?
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Color in LaTeX when I want everything to be in black
I would like to have everything in black, but my equations and references are mentioned always in different color, green and red. How can I change it?
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How to define a math mode macro like mathtools' \Aboxed but colored for multiline equations in an align/align* environment without breaking alignment?
Before I get to the question and to not receive the answers I do not want, I want to point out that I mainly have 4 usage of equation or math-related boxes in LaTeX (For the question related to the ...
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How to change text colour across pages using mdframed
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass[twoside, a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath, amssymb}
\usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}
\linespread{1.5}
\usepackage[top=0.85in, bottom=0....
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incompatibility of pdftex graphics driver, expl3 and xparse in TL2022 [closed]
I am running into a strange compilation error.
Consider the following MWE:
% file test.tex
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{mdframed}
%\usepackage{color}
\makeatletter
\input{pdftex.def}
\...
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Is there a (better) way to repeatedly toggle between two font colors within a paracol environment, and compiling with XeTeX?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\colorlet{color1}{blue!50!black}
\colorlet{color2}{green!50!black}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newtoggle{col}
\providecommand{\tog}%
{%...
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