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Hue | Border | Header | Accent | Background |
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0° | #BFA3A3 | #F2CECE | #FFE6E6 | #FFF5F5 |
30° | #BFB1A3 | #F2E0CE | #FFF2E6 | #FFFAF5 |
60° | #BFBFA3 | #F2F2CE | #FFFFE6 | #FFFFF5 |
90° | #B1BFA3 | #E0F2CE | #F2FFE6 | #FAFFF5 |
120° | #A3BFA3 | #CEF2CE | #E6FFE6 | #F5FFF5 |
150° | #A3BFB1 | #CEF2E0 | #E6FFF2 | #F5FFFA |
180° | #A3BFBF | #CEF2F2 | #E6FFFF | #F5FFFF |
210° | #A3B1BF | #CEE0F2 | #E6F2FF | #F5FAFF |
240° | #A3A3BF | #CECEF2 | #E6E6FF | #F5F5FF |
270° | #B1A3BF | #E0CEF2 | #F2E6FF | #FAF5FF |
300° | #BFA3BF | #F2CEF2 | #FFE6FF | #FFF5FF |
330° | #BFA3B1 | #F2CEE0 | #FFE6F2 | #FFF5FA |
Saturation | 15% | 15% | 10% | 4% |
Value | 75% | 95% | 100% | 100% |
Lightness | 69.4% | 87.9% | 95% | 98% |
For your own use. Copy to your project-page, and replace in order: A?, B?, C?.
background:#A? border:#B? | background:#B? border:#C? |
Re: table from main page redesign discussion archive
I'd appreciate someone giving a concise summary of how the new main page colours were selected. (I'm presumming the saturation/hue remained the consistent variables, as shown?)
Then we can generate a few additional colour schemes that all fit well together, helping keep wikipedia consistently styled where possible. -- Quiddity 00:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
List of things that are pertinent, but not suitable for the guideline page itself. -- Quiddity 20:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
How has it been decided to use the Canadian spelling for this project's page title?? Georgia guy 23:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering the same thing. In everything else related to Wikipedia colors, it's spelled with the American spelling, but this, and only this, has the Canadian/British spelling. Perhaps there should be a bit more...consistency? ♥ ►ąĿÎąş◄ ♥ ( ŧąĿĸ) 23:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
color
, so this should be moved to
Help:Using colors for consistency.
95.49.79.82 (
talk) 18:26, 8 June 2020 (UTC)How come the colours used in the little box that pops up and says your talk page has been edited aren't included in this article. Philc T E C I 22:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Important are IMO some technical facts:
This section seems to be a bit abrupt to be added without discussion. On what basis are these colors "allowed," implying others are "disallowed"? The list doesn't seem to be all that consistent with the HSB/HSV style of designating color palettes either. Rfrisbie talk 04:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
In the See Also section, the page "Infobox Colors" appears to be INACTIVE, whereas the "WikiProject Usability/Color" page appears to be ACTIVE. Should their designations on this page be changed or am I missing something? Newbie Laurie Fox 06:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Why do the color listed here on this talk page differ from the guideline itself? What one's correct? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look at the darker color blue.) - Rocket000 00:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia Color Chart | ||||||||
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Hue | Border | Header | Accent | Background | ||||
H150 | #A3BFB1 | H:150 S:15 V:75 | #CEF2E0 | H:150 S:15 V:95 | #E6FFF2 | H:150 S:10 V:100 | #F5FFFA | H:150 S:4 V:100 |
H212 | #A3B0BF | H:212 S:15 V:75 | #CEDFF2 | H:212 S:15 V:95 | #E6F1FF | H:212 S:10 V:100 | #F5FAFF | H:212 S:4 V:100 |
H265 | #AFA3BF | H:265 S:15 V:75 | #DDCEF2 | H:265 S:15 V:95 | #F0E6FF | H:265 S:10 V:100 | #F9F5FF* | H:265 S:4 V:100 |
H0 | #CCCCCC | H:0 S:0 V:80 | #FCFCFC | H:0 S:0 V:99 |
The article was created as Wikipedia:Colours and per WP:ENGVAR should remain there. I've move protected it at that location because of the recent move wars (which resulted in lots of double redirects). Moves can still be discussed here, of course. violet/riga (t) 10:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
To note, most guidelines use U.S. spelling, I oppose the name.-- Ipatrol ( talk) 23:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
How come the templates now have their color in a little bar to the side? And do these colors mean anything?-- 190.74.108.43 ( talk) 20:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Since tables are the general way to present structured information, and presentation of structured information is often assisted by colors, I'm a bit surprised there is not more table-specific information and guidance here.
It seems especially odd that there is no information about the choice of colors in class=wikitable (#f9f9f9 for background, #f2f2f2 for headings). When I needed a third color for a table heading a while ago (in List of motion picture film stocks), I ended up choosing #ebebeb since it was 7 less than #f2f2f2 which was 7 less than #f9f9f9; but I was not aware of this page at that time. How were the table colors chosen?
Is there any guidance on colors to use within tables? jhawkinson ( talk) 15:03, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
In addition to presenting the colours employed in the various title boxes, shouldn't mention be made of the Wikipedia's page background colour itself (#F8FCFF)? JGHowes talk - 01:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox Country#Wales country specific infobox 52 Pickup (deal) 07:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I there anything wrong with the use of colour in this article? BUC ( talk) 17:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
What are the
hex codes for the colors shown in Wikipedia
internal links?
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What color is the link to this unvisited page?
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What color is the link to this non-exsistant page?
I noticed these colors are different from <span style="color:blue;"> and <span style="color:red;">. Also, what are the colors to visited, existing pages (they're more of a purple color)? Thanks for your help,
αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ (
talk) 01:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
An article I do occasional work on, Virginia House of Delegates, just had a large table recoded to indicate political party preference via a background color templates, Template:Party shading/Democratic and Template:Party shading/Republican. This has led to a rather large number of links, blue and red, sitting on backgrounds of #B0CEFF and #FFB6B6. This appears to be a spreading usage in US political articles. Is it just me, or is there a serious contrast problem with this mix of red or blue text on red or blue backgrounds? Rklear ( talk) 01:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I added: WP:Don't edit war over the colour of templates to the see also section, after seeing this:
I'm increasingly irritated by angry fruit salad coloring like this, with random words in the body of the article colored. Would there be opposition to adding this to the guideline?
Off the top of my head, the only deserved exception I can think of is the habit of denoting some playing cards in color, eg. List of poker hands. Jpatokal ( talk) 08:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
, in "technical" articles likeThese are NOT random words. Why did you describe them as such? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The colours deployed are those used in the table. The words coloured are those with that colour in the table in the article, which the words are talking about. HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I could be totally wrong here, but aren't there some colours which are "colourblind safe"? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
If (truly) random colouring of words or background were a problem, then it might be something worth bothering about. However, I believe there are some style guides, or accessibility guides, which deal with colour use already. I can't be arsed looking for them; what about anyone else? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
You are right, Quiddity. This is both a Web usability and Web accessibility issue, here is a review of West Rail Line. Dodoïste ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Most colors doesn't have enough contrast with the background, according to W3C's Colour Contrast Analyser.
Text or diagrams and their background must have a luminosity contrast ratio of at least 5:1 for level 2 conformance to guideline 1.4, and text or diagrams and their background must have a luminosity contrast ratio of at least 10:1 for level 3 conformance to guideline 1.4.
On Wikipedia, every link is blue. Therefore, everything that is not blue is not a link. It is very confusing for the user, so please do not change the color of the links (and same goes for text: text is black).
Each kind of content has a specific color. New colors should only be used to indicate a new kind of interactive content.
Bad usability | Good usability |
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<div style="color: #fff;background:#AA0077;font-weight:bold;text-align: center;"> West Rail Line </div> |
<div style="text-align: center;"> '''West Rail Line''' </div> |
West Rail Line |
West Rail Line |
Dodoïste ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Overcoloured has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- Beland ( talk) 20:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Could we, and should we, merge this with
Wikipedia:Accessibility?
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V = I * R (
talk to Ω) 19:30, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I agree where this is coming from, but don't fully agree with the proposal for a full-on merge. My opinion is:
Pretty much done, except for the page move. This project page has been move protected since 2007, so I can't change move it.
{{
editprotected}}
Please move the page to
Wikipedia:Using Colors and/or
Wikipedia:Using Colours (I don't personally care which, "Colors" is simply the spelling that I don't have to think about at all).
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V = I * R (
talk to Ω) 18:38, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
This page rename didn't follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style #Article titles, headings, and sections, which says that titles should use sentence case (Like this), not title case (Like This). To fix the problem, please please rename the page again, from Wikipedia:Using Colours to Wikipedia:Using colours. Thanks. Eubulides ( talk) 22:01, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello, how can we color an entire column in a table please ? Polylepsis ( talk) 13:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Would it make sense to move this page to Help:Using Colours? The current page contents seem more like the pages in the Help namespace than the Wikipedia namespace. – Grondemar 23:07, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Since nobody has commented or objected, I'm boldly proceeding with the proposed move. – Grondemar 11:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Given WP:CONLIMITED, to what extent and under what circumstances can individual WikiProjects and users customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines? Interested contributors are invited to participate at Wikipedia talk:Consensus/RfC. -- Quiddity ( talk) 19:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I strongly suggest to put the #Colour generation guide from here into thee Help-page. Very good & useful, explaining right what the color scheme are & should do .(Well, maybe change into "Color", all these English on this wiki ;-).) Also, the top-page table could be there. - DePiep ( talk) 00:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC) (adding & sectioning) - DePiep ( talk) 01:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
take a look at this. IMO there could be massive improvements in the use of color but i'm not really sure how to proceed. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 20:12, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
A newly developed template has been launched, and it helps catalogue life using a color scheme. Please place comments regarding its color at Template talk:Taxobox colour#Veterovata. Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
@ Edokter: You removed a link to w3color that was added by 95.155.1.218. You didn't leave a reason in the edit summary. I thought the link was actually quite a good addition to the page. What was the reason for removing it? Zell Faze ( talk) 12:12, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
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12:45, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
What part of WP:ELNO does the link not pass? Zell Faze ( talk) 13:01, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
-- [[
User:Edokter]] {{
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20:57, 25 July 2014 (UTC)Does anyone know how to change colours of your username or the 'talk' sign that appears after I post my comment? OldstoneJames T/ C 18:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
I want to change my username,and the colour with it as I've seen it by some users.Can anyone tell me how it's done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nixious6 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
I am looking at the table in List of wind farms in South Australia and undoubtedly similar tables in many other places. It has coloured backgrounds for the status column with text values of Installed, Planning approved, Under construction, Proposed, Feasibility. I have recently added Cancelled. I made up the new colour as I could not find a guide on whether there is a standard set I should have chosen from. Thank you. -- Scott Davis Talk 07:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Another editor asked at the help desk about printing table colors. He noticed they don't render with print previews, and I noticed that you can't save them using the PDF download function either. Is there a way to do this? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 21:54, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
I have made the above list as the category is about to be deleted, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_8. It may be useful to add one or more new templates and categories to tag specific images and tables that need improvement. someone may want to check and tick off the above list. – Fayenatic London 17:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Just for an example, I'm adding a Template:Digital clock and date to my User page (still in sandbox at this phase). I'm changing it from a plastic white appearance to one that matches the default color scheme of other elements on my page, e.g. TOC, Archives box, and Wikitable. It would be handy if this default color scheme was defined on this page, but Wikipedia is under § Wikimedia, and the color scheme shown does not match the templates and tables I've just described. — Christopher, Sheridan, OR ( talk) 21:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia's servers are based in Florida, so why is this in British English? Royal Autumn Crest ( talk) 12:09, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I was scouring the internet for a helpful guide to inclusive color palettes and ran across this blog. It appears to do a deep-dive into color-blindness and the palettes the author creates are also shown in the way that people with specific types of color-blindness would see them. Lindsey40186 ( talk) 13:42, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Most live in America, and the American English page redirects here. My last resort was to use a profanity filter for translation. Orrinpants ( talk) 15:04, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Help:Using colours#Colour generation guide
The 3 colours are generated using the HSV colour space, then translated into RGB.
HSV is one of several representations of the sRGB color space. All RGB spaces are based upon the technology, not human perception, therefore linear gradients therein do not appear uniform, for instance. Other color spaces have been devised that focus on how human eyes and brain see colors. A popular one is CIELAB (with various variants and representations) and a rather recent improvement on that is OKLab, which can be represented by lightness, chroma and hue as well.
I propose to change the Colour Generation Guide to use OK… with the same hues in 10° (or 15° or 30°) steps as for HSV, but I’m not sure yet which systematic L and C values should be chosen to get similar colors to the ones currently suggested. (The values in the table below are very preliminary.)
main background | 2nd header, accent colour | main border, header background | header border only | |
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HSV Saturation | 4% | 10% | 15% | 15% |
HSV Brightness (Value) | 100% | 100% | 95% | 75% |
OK Lightness | 98% | 98% | 90% | 75% |
OK Chroma | 1% | 3% | 5% | 3% |
The end result could be converted back to sRGB hex values, because most authors (who’ll copy entries from this table) are more familiar with them, although some preferable colors might be outside the sRGB gamut. — Christoph Päper 15:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Brown | 30° | background:#FFFAF5 border:#F2E0CE | background:#F2E0CE border:#BFB1A3 | ||
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60° | background:#FEF7F2 border:#F8D7BE | background:#F8D7BE border:#BDAA9B | |||
Green | 150° | background:#F5FFFA border:#CEF2E0 | background:#CEF2E0 border:#A3BFB1 | ||
180° | background:#F2FBF9 border:#BBE9DF | background:#BBE9DF border:#9AB5AE | |||
Blue | 210° | background:#F5FAFF border:#CEE0F2 | background:#CEE0F2 border:#A3B1BF | ||
240° | background:#F3FAFF border:#C1E3FC | background:#C1E3FC border:#9EB1BF | |||
Purple | 270° | background:#FAF5FF border:#E0CEF2 | background:#E0CEF2 border:#B1A3BF | ||
300° | background:#F9F7FE border:#E3D7FB | background:#E3D7FB border:#B0AABF | |||
Red | 330° | background:#FFF5FA border:#F2CEE0 | background:#F2CEE0 border:#BFA3B1 | ||
0° | background:#FFF6F8 border:#FCD1DC | background:#FCD1DC border:#BFA6AD |
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Hue | Border | Header | Accent | Background |
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0° | #BFA3A3 | #F2CECE | #FFE6E6 | #FFF5F5 |
30° | #BFB1A3 | #F2E0CE | #FFF2E6 | #FFFAF5 |
60° | #BFBFA3 | #F2F2CE | #FFFFE6 | #FFFFF5 |
90° | #B1BFA3 | #E0F2CE | #F2FFE6 | #FAFFF5 |
120° | #A3BFA3 | #CEF2CE | #E6FFE6 | #F5FFF5 |
150° | #A3BFB1 | #CEF2E0 | #E6FFF2 | #F5FFFA |
180° | #A3BFBF | #CEF2F2 | #E6FFFF | #F5FFFF |
210° | #A3B1BF | #CEE0F2 | #E6F2FF | #F5FAFF |
240° | #A3A3BF | #CECEF2 | #E6E6FF | #F5F5FF |
270° | #B1A3BF | #E0CEF2 | #F2E6FF | #FAF5FF |
300° | #BFA3BF | #F2CEF2 | #FFE6FF | #FFF5FF |
330° | #BFA3B1 | #F2CEE0 | #FFE6F2 | #FFF5FA |
Saturation | 15% | 15% | 10% | 4% |
Value | 75% | 95% | 100% | 100% |
Lightness | 69.4% | 87.9% | 95% | 98% |
For your own use. Copy to your project-page, and replace in order: A?, B?, C?.
background:#A? border:#B? | background:#B? border:#C? |
Re: table from main page redesign discussion archive
I'd appreciate someone giving a concise summary of how the new main page colours were selected. (I'm presumming the saturation/hue remained the consistent variables, as shown?)
Then we can generate a few additional colour schemes that all fit well together, helping keep wikipedia consistently styled where possible. -- Quiddity 00:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
List of things that are pertinent, but not suitable for the guideline page itself. -- Quiddity 20:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
How has it been decided to use the Canadian spelling for this project's page title?? Georgia guy 23:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering the same thing. In everything else related to Wikipedia colors, it's spelled with the American spelling, but this, and only this, has the Canadian/British spelling. Perhaps there should be a bit more...consistency? ♥ ►ąĿÎąş◄ ♥ ( ŧąĿĸ) 23:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
color
, so this should be moved to
Help:Using colors for consistency.
95.49.79.82 (
talk) 18:26, 8 June 2020 (UTC)How come the colours used in the little box that pops up and says your talk page has been edited aren't included in this article. Philc T E C I 22:52, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Important are IMO some technical facts:
This section seems to be a bit abrupt to be added without discussion. On what basis are these colors "allowed," implying others are "disallowed"? The list doesn't seem to be all that consistent with the HSB/HSV style of designating color palettes either. Rfrisbie talk 04:28, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
In the See Also section, the page "Infobox Colors" appears to be INACTIVE, whereas the "WikiProject Usability/Color" page appears to be ACTIVE. Should their designations on this page be changed or am I missing something? Newbie Laurie Fox 06:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Why do the color listed here on this talk page differ from the guideline itself? What one's correct? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, look at the darker color blue.) - Rocket000 00:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia Color Chart | ||||||||
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Hue | Border | Header | Accent | Background | ||||
H150 | #A3BFB1 | H:150 S:15 V:75 | #CEF2E0 | H:150 S:15 V:95 | #E6FFF2 | H:150 S:10 V:100 | #F5FFFA | H:150 S:4 V:100 |
H212 | #A3B0BF | H:212 S:15 V:75 | #CEDFF2 | H:212 S:15 V:95 | #E6F1FF | H:212 S:10 V:100 | #F5FAFF | H:212 S:4 V:100 |
H265 | #AFA3BF | H:265 S:15 V:75 | #DDCEF2 | H:265 S:15 V:95 | #F0E6FF | H:265 S:10 V:100 | #F9F5FF* | H:265 S:4 V:100 |
H0 | #CCCCCC | H:0 S:0 V:80 | #FCFCFC | H:0 S:0 V:99 |
The article was created as Wikipedia:Colours and per WP:ENGVAR should remain there. I've move protected it at that location because of the recent move wars (which resulted in lots of double redirects). Moves can still be discussed here, of course. violet/riga (t) 10:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
To note, most guidelines use U.S. spelling, I oppose the name.-- Ipatrol ( talk) 23:14, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
How come the templates now have their color in a little bar to the side? And do these colors mean anything?-- 190.74.108.43 ( talk) 20:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Since tables are the general way to present structured information, and presentation of structured information is often assisted by colors, I'm a bit surprised there is not more table-specific information and guidance here.
It seems especially odd that there is no information about the choice of colors in class=wikitable (#f9f9f9 for background, #f2f2f2 for headings). When I needed a third color for a table heading a while ago (in List of motion picture film stocks), I ended up choosing #ebebeb since it was 7 less than #f2f2f2 which was 7 less than #f9f9f9; but I was not aware of this page at that time. How were the table colors chosen?
Is there any guidance on colors to use within tables? jhawkinson ( talk) 15:03, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
In addition to presenting the colours employed in the various title boxes, shouldn't mention be made of the Wikipedia's page background colour itself (#F8FCFF)? JGHowes talk - 01:07, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox Country#Wales country specific infobox 52 Pickup (deal) 07:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I there anything wrong with the use of colour in this article? BUC ( talk) 17:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
What are the
hex codes for the colors shown in Wikipedia
internal links?
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What color is the link to this unvisited page?
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What color is the link to this non-exsistant page?
I noticed these colors are different from <span style="color:blue;"> and <span style="color:red;">. Also, what are the colors to visited, existing pages (they're more of a purple color)? Thanks for your help,
αЯβιτЯαЯιŁΨθ (
talk) 01:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
An article I do occasional work on, Virginia House of Delegates, just had a large table recoded to indicate political party preference via a background color templates, Template:Party shading/Democratic and Template:Party shading/Republican. This has led to a rather large number of links, blue and red, sitting on backgrounds of #B0CEFF and #FFB6B6. This appears to be a spreading usage in US political articles. Is it just me, or is there a serious contrast problem with this mix of red or blue text on red or blue backgrounds? Rklear ( talk) 01:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
I added: WP:Don't edit war over the colour of templates to the see also section, after seeing this:
I'm increasingly irritated by angry fruit salad coloring like this, with random words in the body of the article colored. Would there be opposition to adding this to the guideline?
Off the top of my head, the only deserved exception I can think of is the habit of denoting some playing cards in color, eg. List of poker hands. Jpatokal ( talk) 08:43, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
, in "technical" articles likeThese are NOT random words. Why did you describe them as such? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
The colours deployed are those used in the table. The words coloured are those with that colour in the table in the article, which the words are talking about. HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
I could be totally wrong here, but aren't there some colours which are "colourblind safe"? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
If (truly) random colouring of words or background were a problem, then it might be something worth bothering about. However, I believe there are some style guides, or accessibility guides, which deal with colour use already. I can't be arsed looking for them; what about anyone else? HarryAlffa ( talk) 16:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
You are right, Quiddity. This is both a Web usability and Web accessibility issue, here is a review of West Rail Line. Dodoïste ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Most colors doesn't have enough contrast with the background, according to W3C's Colour Contrast Analyser.
Text or diagrams and their background must have a luminosity contrast ratio of at least 5:1 for level 2 conformance to guideline 1.4, and text or diagrams and their background must have a luminosity contrast ratio of at least 10:1 for level 3 conformance to guideline 1.4.
On Wikipedia, every link is blue. Therefore, everything that is not blue is not a link. It is very confusing for the user, so please do not change the color of the links (and same goes for text: text is black).
Each kind of content has a specific color. New colors should only be used to indicate a new kind of interactive content.
Bad usability | Good usability |
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<div style="color: #fff;background:#AA0077;font-weight:bold;text-align: center;"> West Rail Line </div> |
<div style="text-align: center;"> '''West Rail Line''' </div> |
West Rail Line |
West Rail Line |
Dodoïste ( talk) 12:01, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Overcoloured has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- Beland ( talk) 20:55, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Could we, and should we, merge this with
Wikipedia:Accessibility?
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V = I * R (
talk to Ω) 19:30, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
I agree where this is coming from, but don't fully agree with the proposal for a full-on merge. My opinion is:
Pretty much done, except for the page move. This project page has been move protected since 2007, so I can't change move it.
{{
editprotected}}
Please move the page to
Wikipedia:Using Colors and/or
Wikipedia:Using Colours (I don't personally care which, "Colors" is simply the spelling that I don't have to think about at all).
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This page rename didn't follow Wikipedia:Manual of Style #Article titles, headings, and sections, which says that titles should use sentence case (Like this), not title case (Like This). To fix the problem, please please rename the page again, from Wikipedia:Using Colours to Wikipedia:Using colours. Thanks. Eubulides ( talk) 22:01, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
Hello, how can we color an entire column in a table please ? Polylepsis ( talk) 13:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Would it make sense to move this page to Help:Using Colours? The current page contents seem more like the pages in the Help namespace than the Wikipedia namespace. – Grondemar 23:07, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Since nobody has commented or objected, I'm boldly proceeding with the proposed move. – Grondemar 11:00, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
Given WP:CONLIMITED, to what extent and under what circumstances can individual WikiProjects and users customize article appearance with individual styles that deviate from site-wide style guidelines? Interested contributors are invited to participate at Wikipedia talk:Consensus/RfC. -- Quiddity ( talk) 19:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I strongly suggest to put the #Colour generation guide from here into thee Help-page. Very good & useful, explaining right what the color scheme are & should do .(Well, maybe change into "Color", all these English on this wiki ;-).) Also, the top-page table could be there. - DePiep ( talk) 00:02, 16 July 2010 (UTC) (adding & sectioning) - DePiep ( talk) 01:09, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
take a look at this. IMO there could be massive improvements in the use of color but i'm not really sure how to proceed. -- Lil_℧niquℇ №1 | talk2me 20:12, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
A newly developed template has been launched, and it helps catalogue life using a color scheme. Please place comments regarding its color at Template talk:Taxobox colour#Veterovata. Thanks! Bob the WikipediaN ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
@ Edokter: You removed a link to w3color that was added by 95.155.1.218. You didn't leave a reason in the edit summary. I thought the link was actually quite a good addition to the page. What was the reason for removing it? Zell Faze ( talk) 12:12, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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What part of WP:ELNO does the link not pass? Zell Faze ( talk) 13:01, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
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20:57, 25 July 2014 (UTC)Does anyone know how to change colours of your username or the 'talk' sign that appears after I post my comment? OldstoneJames T/ C 18:10, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
I want to change my username,and the colour with it as I've seen it by some users.Can anyone tell me how it's done? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nixious6 ( talk • contribs) 19:36, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
I am looking at the table in List of wind farms in South Australia and undoubtedly similar tables in many other places. It has coloured backgrounds for the status column with text values of Installed, Planning approved, Under construction, Proposed, Feasibility. I have recently added Cancelled. I made up the new colour as I could not find a guide on whether there is a standard set I should have chosen from. Thank you. -- Scott Davis Talk 07:19, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Another editor asked at the help desk about printing table colors. He noticed they don't render with print previews, and I noticed that you can't save them using the PDF download function either. Is there a way to do this? TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 21:54, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
I have made the above list as the category is about to be deleted, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_8. It may be useful to add one or more new templates and categories to tag specific images and tables that need improvement. someone may want to check and tick off the above list. – Fayenatic London 17:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Just for an example, I'm adding a Template:Digital clock and date to my User page (still in sandbox at this phase). I'm changing it from a plastic white appearance to one that matches the default color scheme of other elements on my page, e.g. TOC, Archives box, and Wikitable. It would be handy if this default color scheme was defined on this page, but Wikipedia is under § Wikimedia, and the color scheme shown does not match the templates and tables I've just described. — Christopher, Sheridan, OR ( talk) 21:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
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Wikipedia's servers are based in Florida, so why is this in British English? Royal Autumn Crest ( talk) 12:09, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I was scouring the internet for a helpful guide to inclusive color palettes and ran across this blog. It appears to do a deep-dive into color-blindness and the palettes the author creates are also shown in the way that people with specific types of color-blindness would see them. Lindsey40186 ( talk) 13:42, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
Most live in America, and the American English page redirects here. My last resort was to use a profanity filter for translation. Orrinpants ( talk) 15:04, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
Help:Using colours#Colour generation guide
The 3 colours are generated using the HSV colour space, then translated into RGB.
HSV is one of several representations of the sRGB color space. All RGB spaces are based upon the technology, not human perception, therefore linear gradients therein do not appear uniform, for instance. Other color spaces have been devised that focus on how human eyes and brain see colors. A popular one is CIELAB (with various variants and representations) and a rather recent improvement on that is OKLab, which can be represented by lightness, chroma and hue as well.
I propose to change the Colour Generation Guide to use OK… with the same hues in 10° (or 15° or 30°) steps as for HSV, but I’m not sure yet which systematic L and C values should be chosen to get similar colors to the ones currently suggested. (The values in the table below are very preliminary.)
main background | 2nd header, accent colour | main border, header background | header border only | |
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HSV Saturation | 4% | 10% | 15% | 15% |
HSV Brightness (Value) | 100% | 100% | 95% | 75% |
OK Lightness | 98% | 98% | 90% | 75% |
OK Chroma | 1% | 3% | 5% | 3% |
The end result could be converted back to sRGB hex values, because most authors (who’ll copy entries from this table) are more familiar with them, although some preferable colors might be outside the sRGB gamut. — Christoph Päper 15:01, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Brown | 30° | background:#FFFAF5 border:#F2E0CE | background:#F2E0CE border:#BFB1A3 | ||
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60° | background:#FEF7F2 border:#F8D7BE | background:#F8D7BE border:#BDAA9B | |||
Green | 150° | background:#F5FFFA border:#CEF2E0 | background:#CEF2E0 border:#A3BFB1 | ||
180° | background:#F2FBF9 border:#BBE9DF | background:#BBE9DF border:#9AB5AE | |||
Blue | 210° | background:#F5FAFF border:#CEE0F2 | background:#CEE0F2 border:#A3B1BF | ||
240° | background:#F3FAFF border:#C1E3FC | background:#C1E3FC border:#9EB1BF | |||
Purple | 270° | background:#FAF5FF border:#E0CEF2 | background:#E0CEF2 border:#B1A3BF | ||
300° | background:#F9F7FE border:#E3D7FB | background:#E3D7FB border:#B0AABF | |||
Red | 330° | background:#FFF5FA border:#F2CEE0 | background:#F2CEE0 border:#BFA3B1 | ||
0° | background:#FFF6F8 border:#FCD1DC | background:#FCD1DC border:#BFA6AD |