Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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Table cellcolor: any way to paint only part of cell?
I have a table where cells have borders and background colors. On some PDF readers the background colors sometimes get painted over the borders:
I haven't been able to solve this and now I'm ...
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Plotting curves within a foreach loop and attributing colors from a colormap
I'm trying to plot curves inside a \foreach loop and at the same time define their color through a colormap. The color is given accordingly to a parameter of the curve:(\T/\Tmax*1000), where \T is the ...
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How to change the element color of the table in latex
How to change 2021-2022 to red color in the table
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{cl}
Year 2023-2024 & Very long very long text Very ...
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Apply formatting to selected page numbers of index
I would like to apply a formatting to some of the page numbers in an index. In the MWE below, when I use \index{} the page number should be in black and when I use \MyIndex{} the page number should ...
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Color mismatch between referring/referred to footnotemarks
In the example shown, referring is red (as it should), referred+rule is black (it should be red). There is a similar post for beamer that I haven't been able to adapt to this case. There are more ...
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chapter thumb colour box
I would like to add colour chapter thumb to my code
\documentclass[headsepline,BCOR=10mm,11pt,twoside,openright,cleardoublepage=empty,bibliography=totoc,numbers=noenddot]{scrbook}
\usepackage[...
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How to make \footnotemark color change?
MWE
\documentclass[a5paper,11pt]{report}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{%
colorlinks=true,
citecolor=blue,
linkcolor=blue,
...
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Changing only the number in table of contents
My minimal document looks like this
This colors the numbers in the table of contents, and in the section. How can i color the page number in the table of contents as well?
I tried using tocloft and ...
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Using tcolorbox, but the color is not exactly the right color
I am using the following code
\documentclass[oneside]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newtcolorbox{tbox}[3][]
{
colframe = #2!25,
colback = #...
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Change the colors at the bottom of beamer package for the theme Madrid
For my work at school, I sometimes create notes with the beamer library. Changing style changes the colors. I chose the style Madrid with the option \usecolortheme{crane}.
\documentclass{beamer}
%%% ...
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Coloring only author's name and date in fullcite command
As title points, I want to color only author's name and date in my document, in which citations are made by using fullcite command. A MWE could be
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber,...
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Spacing of Chapter Name and Chapter Number when using package sectsty
Hello my dear fellow latex users! I've been trying to fancy my thesis by setting a color to the chapter names and in order to do so, I used the package sectsty, because I am using a template where if ...
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Is it possible to set the color of partial text inside a node?
I have a tikz node \node[] {blah};
and I want to set the color of half the text, such as "ah" to a different color without having to create a new node and try to make everything stick together ...
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Accessing the current color of a color series
The xcolor documentation clearly states that \color{foo} (or similar commands) should access the current color of the (previously defined) color series foo. However, the following MWE produces a black ...
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How do I make this document follow the CMYK standart?
I've tried some scripts and various tricks I found online, but I'm starting to be near my wit's end.
If I do identify -verbose mwe.pdf | grep Colorspace, I get Colorspace: sRGB. I need the CMYK for ...
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Color for math applies to \text{} and \intertext{} as well
I have a LaTeX beamer presentation where I use \setbeamercolor{math text} for enhanced readability and it works great. Unfortunately, all \text{} and \intertext{} is colored as well and that doesn't ...
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Change Path Color at Specified Points (to Tricolor Trefoil Knot)
I am currently teaching myself Knot Theory and am looking to draw related diagrams using TikZ. Using the knots library and a foreach loop, I have written a pretty solid code for drawing a monocolor ...
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Can I make a larger left bracket? [duplicate]
For statements like the one below, I need a large left bracket to precede the array. \Biggr\{ is not big enough. Ideally I could use \left\{ and make the right bracket white, but there doesn't seem ...
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Problem with color background
This has grey background:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Segoe UI Symbol}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{230....
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pgfplots: Swap colors of predefined cycle list (colorbrewer)
I would like to use the colorbrewer cycle list Set1-5 in pgfplots.
This usually starts with a red color, followed by a blue color. However, I would like to use the blue color as my first color and red ...
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Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `tcbcol@back'
I am work on lyx and i got problem when i generated pdf?!
The error mg:
! Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `tcbcol@back'.
The code of local layout:
Style Stop
Category MainText
...
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Colouring text in table
I have the following table:
\documentclass[a4paper, twoside]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{dcolumn, bigdelim}
...
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The \cellcolor command of the colortbl package does not work
I'm trying to use the \cellcolor command from the colortbl package. Here is the code I wrote:
\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{table}[!hb]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\mbox{$B_3B_2 \...
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transparent text, such that floats and footnotes are affected correctly
My question is very similar to Recolor text, such that floats and footnotes are affected correctly, but I am using transparent text instead of colored text.
(I do not simply use grey text because I am ...
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Coloring graphics with tikz
I have been using the fadings tikz library for colouring images (png and pdf, mostly) in LaTeX with the code below. The only two libraries I am using here are tikz and graphicx.
% Importing the image
...
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The xcolor package can't find the color “turquoise”? [closed]
Based on this link the color "Turquoise" should be a part of the xcolor package. I keep getting the error:
Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `turquoise'.
Here's my simple file:
\documentclass[...
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Set textcolor of fnmark in Footer
I'm modifying @makefnmark in the body but keeping it the same in the footer using this code:
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
% ...
}
\let\@latex@makefnmark\@makefnmark
\patchcmd{\@makefntext}{\@...
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Mixing colours for a symbol
Assuming we have a symbol like a volleyball symbol. In LaTeX is it possible to have a mixture of colors (I do not know if the technical term is texture) of various types that fill a symbol making it ...
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`xr` Cross-Reference: Change Colour for External References Only
I want to reference between two files, say Paper1 and Paper2. I'm using hyperref in each of the documents for internal references. So as to make clear which references are internal and which are ...
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Using beamer's colours
I'm trying to use the beamer system colours for tikz pictures, and I try to follow the approach from this post:
How to get actual values of colour theme colours in beamer?
So what I came up with is ...
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Colored tables with booktabs, makecell and cellspace
While experimenting with different table-packages, I realised, that each package basically stands for itself and often lacks in compatibility with other great packages.
So I tried to create a table ...
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Using beamer colors
to avoid having too many colors, I use beamer's colors to emphasize items of my text. It looks something like this:
\documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\newcommand{\gn}[1]{\...
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XeLaTex with pgfplots displays wrong color?
I'm using XeTex for Truetypefonts.
It appears as if the color output in pgfplots is not correct. Is that a bug? Or do I have some misconfiguration?
For other colors than black (e.g. red for the axis ...
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\colorbox with Hebrew
When using a \colorbox (or derivates such as framed's shadedbox) with Hebrew and pdflatex, the color stack seems to get confused:
pdfTeX warning: pdflatex: pop empty color page stack 0
and the ...
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Vertical gradient color for background of one page
I want to type some text with XeLaTeX like this picture on one page. Sorry I don't have any good minimal code.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{xepersian}
\settextfont{Yas}
\begin{document}
تقدیم ...
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How to make double headers in memoir? Header with two rulings?
I want to make a header that will have two rulings...
Here's what I have so far:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside,showframe]{memoir}
\setlrmarginsandblock{2.5cm}{2cm}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{...
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How to make custom header/footer, marginnotes and use custom fonts in “memoir”?
I'm new to LaTeX. I'm using XeLaTeX on Linux Mint Tara to compile. Updated version of TeX Live is installed.
Here's What I'm trying to make:
Here are my queries:
I have used fontspec package to ...
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Drawing a colored rectangle containing margin
I want to draw a colored rectangle that contain left, top and bottom margins. Like this picture (border is not real). \Thanks :)
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{...
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ghostscript gives undefined in --execute— when using color.tex with pstricks on plain tex
Assume the following plain TeX file:
\input pstricks
\input color
\pscircle{1.5}
\bye
Compiling using eTeX works fine, dvips too. However the resulting PS file can't be processed using gs, I'll post ...
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changing color in flushleft in deedy-resume
I'm trying to change the color of the heading lines ( for example the name and contact info in the title should a different color for each line of the headings).
And unfortunately it doesn't work as ...
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Creating bracket-enclosed, colored, hyperlinked text
How do I surround a hyperlink with square brackets using \href?
I want something like [Link] with square brackets, in black and "Link" in blue (my default hyper-link color).
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Are there any pros and cons associated with dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names in xcolors package?
The xcolors package mentions three color options in its package documentation at http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/xcolor.pdf. They are dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names.
I ...
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Changing border color of \frame{}
I am using the \frame{} command to draw a box around an image, like \frame{\includegraphics{...}}. Is there a way to change the color of this box? It is black by default.
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Programming table cell colour based on contents
I built this table based on an earlier Q&A:
As you can see there's a problem with the header.
How can I disable the highlighting for headers only?
Here's the code:
\documentclass{article}
...
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How to change logos in Black color by using bclogo.sty
Is this possible to change \bclampe color to Black color? My tags are follows:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{environ} %fancy boxes
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns,shapes,arrows,calc,...
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Why does Latex make a small adjustment when I change section color [duplicate]
I want to change the color of a section of a document.
The command to do so is
{\color{red} \section{Introduction}}
(Merely doing \section{\color{Introduction}} does not change the color of the ...
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Which colors are these? (minted package)
I am using code Highlighting for Python 3.7 with the minted package. I am using the tango color scheme (you can see all the color schemes minted uses in this page).
I want to know the hex/rgb/cymk ...
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Define colors in a central file and import them to other tex documents
I'm new to LaTeX, so this might be a stupid question, but is there a way how I can define colors in one file and then use them by their name in another document? I'm thinking of something like this:
%...
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How to color a specific reference in bibliography using apacite?
I would like to color in red specific citations in bibliography section (let's say Jahani et al.) using the apa6 class and the apacite package.
Here is my .tex file:
\documentclass[a4paper,man,...
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Coloring Arab vowels/marks without losing connection
In Arabic script you add short vowels/diacritics (marks) above/below the consonants. How do yo go about coloring them (on a case by case basis) without losing connection/breaking the letters/vowels in ...
