Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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Are RGB defined colours converted to the xcolor setting?
I am preparing a manuscript for print. I am not a typesetter and now fairly little about printing in general. I have read that CMYK is typically the preferred format for printing (as it refers to ...
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Colors in Exam class?
I would like to configure the colours in the Exam class, but it is not working and I get no colours.
\documentclass[french,a4paper,addpoints,12pt]{exam}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\definecolor{...
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How to use colorbrewer in pgf area plot
I am trying to create an area chart using some colorbrewer color scheme.
How would I do that?
The things I found on the internet were somehow not working for area charts.
Here is my MWE:
\...
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Changing color of grid
I am using overpic package on a standalone document class. I want to write some text over an image. However, the image I am using is black, therefore, the grid does not seem to be helpful here. How ...
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Using color and background color together
I'm trying to use color and background color together. But, for example, the following is not working - showing only a black box. What I may be missing here and how can it be fixed.?
Remark: I'm using ...
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Retrieve frametitle-fg-color in beamer
Could you please help me on how to "retrieve" the color a beamer document currently uses for coloring headline fonts?
I would like to use it to color ordinary text, as in
\textcolor{\...
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Wrong position of superscript with colored brackets
Coloring the brackets changes the position of the superscript. How can I get the same position as in the right example with standard color brackets? I intend to use \left) and \right) for brackets to ...
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Cellcolor doesn't color full cell in custom longtable caption definition
To create a caption in a longtable multicolumn table cell with a grey background I changed the \LT@makecaption from the original package.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\...
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Stacking boxes side-by-side with geometry and tcolorbox packages
I have been editing a CV with tcolorbox and geometry packages, I wanted to stack side-by-side two boxes below a top box but when I run the code the top box sits on top of the first page alone and the ...
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Is it possible to have different colours between hyperlinks for figures reference and for chapters reference?
I'm trying to have different colours regarding the hyperlinks for figures and for chapters. So far I've been able to differentiate the colours between equations and chapters/figures, doing this
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Colors changing under graphic inclusion with graphicx
I have (a couple) of PNG images with a background color of, for example, RGB(80,64,83):
that when placed on a page of the same background color with graphicx -- they show a distinct tonality against ...
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Color lower half of the $\ge$ symbol
I wish to partly change the color of the $\ge$ symbol. In particular, I want to change the horizontal bar into a red color, similar to this:
How can this be typset?
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RGB to CMYK equivalent color
TeXnicians, How to convert RGB to equivalent CMYK color value from RGB color values?
Please find MWE file as follows:
\documentclass[draft]{book}
\usepackage{color,}
\definecolor{rgbcolor}{rgb}{0.686,...
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Its possible to apply a efect like pen and ink over an axis/path?
I dont know if a effect like using ink/pen transparency can be achieved in latex.
Something like the image, applyed to an axis or a path or any other object.
Thanks
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Header with background color
I wanted to know whether there is a way to set the background color of my header.
Here is my code so far:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[L]{\textsl{...
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A complete graph on 5 vertices with coloured edges
I was unable to create a complete graph on 5 vertices with edges coloured red and blue in Latex. The picture of such graph is below. I would be very grateful for help!
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Color an example-image
Is there a simple way to set the color for a (blank) example-image?
The naive way doesn't work:
\begin{figure}
\color{red}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image}
\color{black}
\end{figure}
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How can I put a blue line in front of a quotation?
I want to put a blue line to the left of a quotation that has the exact size of the height of the quotation.
It should look like the following image.
How can I do it?
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Beamer: How To Define Colors from Dolphin Theme
I was trying out different themes, and I accidentally stumbled on a combination of themes whose color combination I very much like (with color theme: Dolphin). I'm using the themes: Berlin, Frankfurt, ...
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Ungrouped \color breaks \limits
Thinking about the issue posted in Colors in underbrace and overbrace - strange behaviour I thought that the reboxing which TeX performs for a \mathop with \limits caused the color to leak outside of ...
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Customize the caption with a background
Hi there, i have some problems with modifying a caption which belongs to a listing.
The current result is shown in picture.
What i would like to change, can be seen in the second picture.
As you can ...
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Colors in underbrace and overbrace - strange behaviour
There is a strange inconsistency between \overbrace and \underbrace when one wishes to have the associated text (above or below) in a different color.
\underbrace behaves as expected and \overbrace ...
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Undefined control sequence. \set@color …\@pdfcolorstack push{\current@color}\aftergroup \reset@color
I know, there is this question but my knowledge regarding .cls files when it comes to latex, is too little. I tried to do as the solution there says there but I don't use begincmd so I don't know how ...
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How to pass a hex color as argument to a new command?
I would like to pass a color in HEX format to my arr command. I do not want to define a color.
\newcommand{\arr}[2]{
{\tikz{\path[draw=#1,line width=1.5mm, line join=round,line cap=round, -
{...
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Switch off color interpolation in PGFPLOTS
I want to plot a heatmap-style diagram, where only the diagonal of a 2d-matrix has values. What i would expect is the plot to only contain color that represents values > 0 on the diagonal elements. ...
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How to match the filled contour and contour lines
How can I match the levels lines with the filled contours?
Is there a pgf-based solution to draw the levels lines?
My code
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
view={0}{90},
colorbar right,
...
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How to color only literal constant in listings package?
I'm trying to show some c++ codes and want to hightlight all the literal digits with colors. I have referred to the question Coloring digits with the listings package and Colored strings by listings ...
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Fill region and add a vertical or horizontal strip inside
Question:1 How can i fill region between points A(2,0) and B(2,0) with different colors?
Question:1 How can i add a small size (width approximately 0.25 cm) vertical strip with upper-lower labeling in ...
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How can I change the color of specific terms of equation (For exemple $P$) for all the text?
Like, to always that I put $P$ in the latex code, it appears with the color purple)
This is the code: (Look that I need to put \purple{$Q$} <= that is a shortcut for \textcolor{purple}{$Q$}. Maybe ...
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Change the color of footnote text for long footnotes
I want to change the color of my footnotes, but I'm running into a problem with long footnotes
I'm using memoir and to change the color of footnotes, I can use \renewcommand{\foottextfont}{\color{gray}...
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Difference between the colour of the text in the document compiled on Overleaf and after downloading it on Mac OS
I have compiled a document on overleaf.com.
I used red colour for some of the text and the document was generated successfully with no errors.
After I download it on the Mac OS, I see a significant ...
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How to put two colors in the same line/path in tikz?
How can be colored a line/path in tikz?
i.e. green before the 5 and red after?
I have seen a option with
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
but this seems too much complex to the task (even ...
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Get access to the colormap jet
I need to get access to the pre defined color map "jet".
I found my an example to get access to the map "vidiris"
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib ...
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Tabularx, rowcolors, rotated multirow text in table
I'm having issues with my tables, specifically with alternating row colors. In my tables, I have a column in which I display the category of the row entry. E.g., for olympic weightlifting, I ...
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How to change the header to a certain color?
I am trying to make all the letters in my header red. I tried adding more hashtags, but that makes the text disappear if there are more hashtags than letters. If I make space for "Work Experience&...
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How to plot a colored helix whose color varies in the curve through a function?
I have a problem on how to color the plot of a helix using pgfplots. Let the helix be given by $\alpha(\phi) = (\cos(\phi),\sin(\phi),\phi)$, for $0 \leq \phi \leq 2\pi$, then I need the color of the ...
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Use colour specification for TikZ arrow and label without first using `\definecolor`
Consider the following, in which arrows and labels are coloured using \definecolor:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz-cd}
\begin{document}
\definecolor{reddish}{HTML}{A01A3A}
\definecolor{...
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Referencing figure in text question!
How to add that sky or blue text color when referencing the figure in text.
That's not in figure section, just a normal paragraph.
For example, in the beginning of the paragraph
Fig1. demonstrate the ...
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PGFplots - Problem with “colorbar as legend” option
I have a problem when I use the option colorbar as legend : the displayed tick labels are incorrect. After looking in the PGFplots manual, I noticed that the example given also had this problem.
Is it ...
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table with optional border colors and text colors
I am trying to make a table that has a can have optional color for its borders and texts, similar to the following table taken from here.
I hadn't very much luck so far modifying the snippets ...
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Changing line color of an Op Amp color
I was able to change the line color of op amp (to cyan) using the command shown in the code below for one circuit. However, I want to achieve the same affect for the whole document using a document ...
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Background color for documents generated by the preview package
My question is very simple: is it possible to use \pagecolor from xcolor (or related packages) to change the background color of a document generated by the preview package?
I've tried to add \...
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How to automatically set different colors for differents lines on the same plot
I use this code for plotting lines with different colors automatically
\documentclass[crop]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{colormaps}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.9}
\pgfplotsset{
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LaTeX Overwriting colored text
In LaTeX, usually I use
default color {\color{blue}changed color.}
or
default color \textcolor{blue}{changed color.}
to change the color of a certain part of the text. Now I want to change the ...
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Convert table from article to beamer
I made the following table to be used in an article class document using \usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor} and \usepackage{tabu} and it works with no problems. However, now i need to use it in a ...
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Make color of error bars same as marks using colormap
I have investigated this a couple of hours now, and the best I found was Define error bar color in scatter class. Too bad, the solution doesn't compile for me.
I want my error bars to use the same ...
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Matching colors
I'm having trouble matching colors. I build myself a "top" and "bottom" for an abstract box. However, I can't get the middle background color to work. No matter what I try, even ...
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Creating a Table fitting the line width and without thin white vertical lines between color filled cells
Can some help me making the table coded in this Thread https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/301036/229635 fit the line width?
As a MWE I copied the code from the Thread I attached as a link.
Thanks a lot,
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Outliers' colours do not match their corresponding Boxplot colour
can you give me some help here?
I'm using custom colours for each axis of my boxplot, but their outliers do not match that color.
This is what I have so far
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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How to change the color of a particular bar in a bar diagram with pgfplots? [duplicate]
% used PGFPlots v1.14
\documentclass[margin=0.5cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepackage[scaled]{helvet} %Paquete para letra helvetica parecida a letra arial
\...
