Questions tagged [color]
{color} is about using color in (La)TeX documents. Popular packages are color and xcolor.
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How to add a code in `\tcolorboxenvironment{definition}` to change the color of "Definition" black to red?
I want to change the color of "Definition" from black to red. For example, the "Definition 8.2.8 (stochastic processes)" is black. But I want to replace it by red color.
My code ...
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Color an Example Image but Leave the Default Drab
This post asks for an extension of Werner's answer given in Color an example-image.
Consider the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor,graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
% % % % % % %...
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Autocolor for italic and bold fonts in pandoc-template
I have started using pandoc to auto-generate PDFs from my .md-notes. This is working out so far, I succeeded to customize the font, background etc. For readability, I want all the italic parts as well ...
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How to use a Beamer Color as any other Named Color?
How can I use a Beamer Color, lets say the one given by \usebeamercolor[bg]{palette primary} as color name in order to be used in a \rowcolors command for example.
In the following MWE I would like to ...
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Decolorizing an \Includegraphics Image -- Is This Possible with LaTex?
I am working on typesetting a book that has recently entered the public domain. It contains several pictures, all of which are in black and white. I have obtained all of them in B&W except two, ...
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Specifying Ahead of Time Both the Color of All Drop Caps and That Their Associated Text be Bold
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lettrine}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\setcounter{DefaultLines}{3}
\setlength{\DefaultFindent}{0em}
\setlength{\DefaultNindent}{.17em}
\renewcommand{\...
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Modifying a Tex function definition to accept optional argument
So, I'm currently trying to modify a function someone else has made, but the function is written TeX, which I don't know the first thing about. I can't contact the original creator of the function to ...
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A problem with \convertdirectly and xcolor
I have been working with How do I get the hue, saturation and brightness values from a color? and have run across a problem. The very useful function \convertdirectly is defined (copied from https://...
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Color all \cref cleveref
I am unable to get this to work, I am trying to use, \creflabelformat{*}{\textcolor{darkred}{#1}} to color all labels or links with the same color however, this does not appear to work.
\documentclass[...
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Latex hyperref: get colours AND small capitals
In \hypersetup, one can turn on/off the colours specified by linkcolor and citecolor with the help of the colorlinks option. One can also get small capitals style references by setting frenchlinks=...
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Drawing 3D perpendicular rectangles in latex
Here is the picture I want to draw:
I want to be able to change the yellow color also. also, not that the arrows are reversed on the grey rectangle Could someone help me in doing so please?
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Conflict between fancyhdr, truncate and xcolor packages
With this code:
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside,openright]{report}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage[fit, breakwords]{truncate}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\...
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Chapter and section numbering style
I am writing a document in LaTeX and I would like to use exactly the numbering style as shown in the image attached to my message.
Can anyone help me?
Thank you.
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underline a specific hyper link
I would be happy if anyone can help me to color differently only one specific hyperlink, (preferably, without setting \hypersetup{}. Many thanks in advance.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
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How can I get this colored header? [duplicate]
I'm trying to get this kind of custom header (please see the screencast). The code I am using for my document is:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{...
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Package xcolor Error with classicthesis
I am writing my thesis using classicthesis but i've been getting the same error over and over.
Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `CTtitle'. ... of the thermal conductivity}}{11}{part.2}
Here's the ...
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Latex: use color without defining a new color
Is it possible to use a new color without defining a new color like \definecolor{mycolor}{HTML}{a65dbd}? It is indeed cumbersome to use when the color is used only once, and can easily lead to ...
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Question about coloring in latex
Hello from the following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[a4paper,margin=1in,footskip=0.25in]{geometry}
\colorlet{mygray}{black!30}
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Can somebody help me to make below tree diagram vertical?
\documentclass[12pt,border=10pt,multi,tikz,dvipsnames,svgnames,rgb]{article}
\usepackage[edges]{forest}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta,shadows.blur}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amssymb, ...
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Increase thickness of a 'line' in text environment
I am using the following code to generate color line to use a legend of a graph:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color,soul}
\begin{document}
\...
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Background color for all existing floats
I'm using this code to add background color to all floating elements:
\makeatletter
\def\foo#1\normalcolor\vbox\bgroup#2!!{%
\def\@xfloat ##1[##2]{#1%
\normalcolor
\hbox\bgroup{\color{yellow}\...
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Color every line when hovering over multiline links
When using hyperref, I sometimes get long links split over several lines. The links work as expected no matter what line I choose to click, but the link background color changes for the current line ...
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tikz node color resets
I am having trouble with node colors resetting after specifying a color for a single word. I have the following MWE where I have the string 3\\ 4\\ 5\\ 6 in which I have specified that 4 be \red{} ...
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unwanted misalignment by setting own color for url with moderncv
I'm trying to build a cv with moderncv where everything is black except the urls. Therefore, after having tried other option (see commented lines), I want to manually set the color of the url locally. ...
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Background color for tikzpicture
I learned from this answer to put a background color behind existing floats without having to change the content of these existing floats.
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\def\foo#1\...
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change title color
I use this code to batch modify the title color of a large number of latex files
\renewcommand{\title}[1]{\renewcommand{\@title}{\color{\@titlecolor}#1}}
\newcommand{\@titlecolor}{black}
\newcommand{\...
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Changing Part headings (color and font size)
I would like to change the color of my part headings to match the other headings (cyan); however, if I just add a line
\setkomafont{part}{\color{cyan}
The color of the title is modified but also the ...
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reledmac/reledpar does not work well with colors
I'm setting two texts beside each other in columns using reledmac/reledpar, the right column being a translation (that I'm correcting) of the left column. I'm using the changes package to annotate any ...
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How to modify the author's color through \renewcommand
I retrieved the method \renewcommand MakeTitle to set the color of the title.
\makeatletter
\renewcommand{\title}[1]{\renewcommand{\@title}{\color{\@titlecolor}#1}}
\newcommand{\@titlecolor}{red}
\...
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Border on subset of pages
I want a gray border on the outside edges of pages of specific chapters in a textbook to obtain the visual effect that looking at the closed text pages you can spot the relevant special chapters. ...
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Tcolorbox with different background color and table
everyone!
I'm new to tcolorbox and I want to achieve something that I didn't think would take so much time without any results. Usually, documentation and googling gets me there. But, for this one I ...
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Generate ink texture effects in infill of characters in LaTeX
So I'm not really familiar with how the colours are rendered in LaTeX text, but I was wondering whether it might be feasible (or readily available, although I've looked for it unsuccessfully) to ...
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“Use of ... doesn't match its definition” error when trying to use the hyperref package (with xelatex)
I am getting the following error:
! Use of \HyColor@WithModel doesn't match its definition.
\@ifnextchar ... \reserved@d =#1\def \reserved@a {
#2}\def ...
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In beamer: how to change the color of itemiized bullet points inside alertblocks without changing the color of alerted text?
Consider the following LaTeX code for a simple beamer presentation. The code is saved in a file called presentation.tex.
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{...
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Changing a color of a link
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{left=2cm,right=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=1.5cm}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{...
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How is this colored background text achieved? [duplicate]
I saw the following beautifully colored text for definitions, theorems, examples... in someone's notes. How do we achieve this in latex?
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How to make an array of colors?
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[space]{ctex}
\begin{document}
\definecolorseries{mycolors}{rgb}{last}{red}{yellow}
\resetcolorseries[5]{mycolors} \newcommand{\M}{\rule{6mm}{0mm}\...
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Error when using defining colour
Currently I am using beamer slides how ever I found the template where I am understanding how we can write fonts with different colour but to define colour I have used the codes like this
\newcommand\...
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Define Another Command Like Aboxed but with a Different Colorbox
The following commands define Aboxed but with a yellow coloured box.
\def\@Aboxed#1\ENDDNE{%
\ifnum0=`{}\fi \setbox \z@
\hbox{$\displaystyle#1{}\m@th$\kern\fboxsep \kern\fboxrule }%...
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How can you add borders to internal links whilst having urls and citation numbers coloured?
I'm using the hyperref package to colour my labels, citations and urls. Initially I had borders around the urls but I started used hypersetup because I wanted to remove the boxes and give the urls ...
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Enumitem: next line to be colored using macro or command
Consider the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Chapter1}
\section{Section1.1}
\lipsum[1]
\...
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How to reset alternating row colors using xcolor and longtable?
I am attempting to automate alternating row colors in a longtable environment. My rows alternate between gray and white, and the alternating persists across pagebreaks. My issue is that I would like ...
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weird placement of sub-index when color is used [duplicate]
Could anyone explain why the sub-indexes were placed not at their correct positions when color is used?
With some further experiments I found that the problem can be fixed by surrounding the sub-...
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Modify output of contour polar plot from input data
I have used @BambOo's answer to this question to generate a contour polar plot in tikz. I have updated the data file. The example code works for my data and generates the following output:
I have the ...
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How to avoid color gradient in table cell that is split in 2 colors?
I adapted a solution from post Multi-colored cell background using Overleaf.
The code I use is the following:
%%% This code comes from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/348933/multi-colored-cell-...
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Is there LaTeX code to convert % based rgb to 0-255 based RGB color codes?
I have hundreds of mixed color definitions in my project that use three different color coding styles, e.g. (% based) rgb, (0-255 based) RGB, and (FFFFFF) HTML :
\definecolor{lemon}{rgb}{1.0, 0.97, 0....
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Simple question about drawing the real line using tikz
I have never drawn anything of LateX before, and I would like to represent intervals of the form [x,x'], with both x,x' real numbers, as I show below. I have 0 experience with tikz and altough I've ...
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How to color cell in overleaf?
I'm using this table generator and I generated this table:
Generator gave me code:
% Please add the following required packages to your document preamble:
% \usepackage[table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
% If you ...
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How to define an environment with appointed color background?
I want to define an environment with appointed color, that is to say the whole environment from the \begin{env} to \end{env} will be drawed by the color. Just like a code block. Roughly, this is waht ...
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Customize Color1 in moderncv
I tried to look at some suggested solutions from previous answers to redefine color1 with the command:
\definecolor{color1}{rgb}{0.67, 0.76, 0.152}% Dark Blue
The color I want is (Hex: #434C98 , RGB: ...
