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Wordle-like colored letter boxes in latex
Here is a possibility using tikz with the matrix library.
I defined three colors: great, good and bad, which you can adjust to your liking.
The wordle is a TikZ matrix with the nodes filled with bad ...
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xcolor: How to get the complementary color
Defining "complementary color" is not so easy ;-) (it depends on the model, you should have a look at section 6.3 of the xcolor manual), but in a pinch, you can use the syntax -color as seen ...
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Wordle-like colored letter boxes in latex
Welcome to tex.stackexchange!
I just finished a project using Tikz's chains library. So, like the man with a hammer that views the world as a nail, I suggest using the chains library for this:
\...
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Giving a Title a Gilded Effect
A TikZ version of some non described gilded effect. Compile twice with pdfLaTeX or XeLaTex.
\documentclass[a5paper]{book}
\usepackage[hmargin=0.7in, vmargin=0.75in]{geometry}
\usepackage{pgfornament, ...
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Spacing before and after \color{}
Are you sure that you really want to use color? This macro is a toggle, which is maybe not the best option here.
Simply use \textcolor{red}{some text} in text mode, and \mathcolor{red}{some math} in ...
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Wordle-like colored letter boxes in latex
Quite similar to the other answer, but your question reminded me of a twitt of mine: https://twitter.com/CarLaTeXSE/status/1484979275598123015
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\...
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Enhancing the Radiance of a Tikz Sun
Someone will probably come up with a better answer as I think this doesn't really work with variable sized suns. But the effect is not too bad:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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Consistent color scheme
After some painful trial and error, I was able to figure out a solution myself:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\usetikzlibrary{datavisualization}...
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Option clash for package xcolor
Another way is to paste this line
\PassOptionsToPackage{table}{xcolor}
before
\documentclass{...}
as was already referenced here!
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Wordle-like colored letter boxes in latex
Two modes:
mode = manual: the type (correct/wrong/almost/no eval/no letter) must be specified directly before the letter.
mode = pre: the types must be speciefied beforehand (with key pre) and then ...
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Making an Image into a Lettrine
Note: You need \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to make possible for \textsc combine with \textbf. As @Cicada's comment, instead you could use some font package if you using pdflatex such as \usepackage{...
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How to Lighten or Shade an Includegraphics Image
I think using the decodearray option to \includegraphics can suit your purposes. Based on this answer.
For RGB images, decodearray takes 3 pairs of numbers between 0 and 1. The three pairs adjust the ...
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l3color's colors: unusable with tikz?
Colors defined with \color_set:nnn are not usable with xcolor. Minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\color_set:nnn { myred } { rgb } { 1,0,0 }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\...
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Call alternating row colors from within the table?
Like this (change colors and alignment as You like)?
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\rowcolors{2}{gray!50}{white}
...
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Wordle-like colored letter boxes in latex
Here's a solution inspired by @Qrrbrbirlbel's reply to my comment on his post. It defines an environment, wordle, that takes one parameter, which is the correct answer to the wordle puzzle. The ...
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Symmetric blend modes
You could use blend mode=screen:
\documentclass[tikz,border=1.618]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[blend mode=screen]
\fill[red ,opacity=0.5] (1,0) rectangle (2,2);
\fill[blue,opacity=...
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Is there a (better) way to repeatedly toggle between two font colors within a paracol environment, and compiling with XeTeX?
This bug is happening because that many color changes in the same environment is exceeding the capacity of the XeTeX color stack. Your bug is a literal stack overflow.
One way to solve it in XeTeX is ...
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Change color for each item in itemize
You can redefine \item to accept an optional argument for the color using xcolor.
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\let\olditem\item\renewcommand{\item}[1][black]{\color{#1}\...
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Display colors and their names
You can use collcell. I made other adjustments to the table.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table,dvipsnames,x11names]{xcolor} % colors with names
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{collcell}
% ...
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Why 'yellow' isn't good for optional parameter of \fill, when it is the results of an \ifthenelse command?
The optional argment to the path is handed to PGFKeys which needs fully exandable key names. (No, each color is not its own key, PGFKeys does a lot of work in the /tikz namespace to sort out colors ...
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How to color the table in latex?
There's the colortbl package, but with \clines, I recommend either the NiceTabular environment from the nicematrix package, or using the similar facilities of the tabularray package.
With nicematrix:
\...
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Compilation error when using &
This is a bug, fixed for the next release see
https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/901
There is a full patch there or simply guard the & with a \relax before the &.
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How to use xcolor color names in tikzpicture style?
The package tikz (by way of package pgfcore) loads the xcolor package.
In your case, the standalone class with the option tikz also loads the tikz package (and configurates other settings so that it ...
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How to make a striped, colored circle in Tikz?
\documentclass[tikz, border=1cm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns.meta}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill[orange!50!yellow, postaction={pattern={Lines[angle=-45, distance=2mm, line width=...
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Calculators packages : TI and Casio
Just swap the order so the package using xcolor options is first
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
\usepackage{tipfr} % TIcalculator
\usepackage[color=real]{graph35} % Casio calculator
\begin{...
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Draw the x-y-plane with the four quadrants marked in four different colors
Something to get started.
\documentclass[tikz,border=2mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
%\draw[help lines, color=gray!30] (-4.9,-4.9) grid ;
\draw[->,thick] (...
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Draw the x-y-plane with the four quadrants marked in four different colors
Another one, adding all the quadrants in a \foreach loop:
\documentclass[tikz,border=2mm]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach[count=\ii from 0]\i in {blue,red,green,yellow}
\...
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What is the difference between "none" and "white" on package pagecolor?
Description
pagecolor=none is the default, and it means, there is no background (can be thought of as transparent background)
pagecolor=white explicitly sets the background color to white
You can ...
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Replicating MS Word Table Style
You must be aware of the order of priority of clortbl package, so using \rowcolors the column color has no effect, but \cellcolor overrides to any other.
On the other hand:
Never ever place a float ...
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Log the RGB components of a color defined using xcolor syntax
If you set \tracingcolors=4, the log will contain the desired information:
Package xcolor Info: Setting color `{}{0.3 0 0 rg 0.3 0 0 RG}{rgb}{0.3,0,0}' on
input line 7.
Obtained from:
\documentclass{...
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