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{{Notice|Editors are encouraged to use the tools listed at [[MOS:COLOR]], such as the [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Additional tools for color scheme selection|tools for color scheme selection]], to make illustrations and webpages more accessible.}}

To use a colour in a [[wikipedia:template|template]] or [[wikipedia:table|table]] you can use the [[hex triplet]] (e.g. {{Mono|#CD7F32}} is bronze) or [[HTML color names|HTML color name]] (e.g. red).

Editors are encouraged to make use of tools, such as [https://colorbrewer2.org/ Color Brewer 2] to create [[Brewer palettes]], listed at [[MOS:COLOR]] for [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Additional tools for color scheme selection|color scheme selection]] used in graphical charts, maps, tables, and otherwebpages entities,with usingaccessibility '''[https://colorbrewer2.org/in thismind tool]'''for color-blind and visually impaired users.

==Overriding font colour{{anchors|Overriding font color}}==

To makeapply acolour wordto have colourtext, use:

<code><nowiki><span style="color:</nowiki>''hex triplet or colour name''<nowiki>">text</span></nowiki></code>

Note that you cannot use the BritishCommonwealth spelling, "colour", in thisHTML contexttags used in wikitext.

Examples:

*<code>'''<nowiki><span style="color:red"></nowikicode>{{Highlight round|red|bc=#dadde3}}<code>">'''red writing'''<nowiki></span></nowiki>'''</code> shows as <span style="color:red">red writing</span>

*<code>'''<nowiki><span style="color:</code>{{Highlight round|#0f0">|bc=#dadde3}}</nowikicode>">'''green writing'''<nowiki></span></nowiki>'''</code> shows as <span style="color:#0f0">green writing</span>

*<code>'''<nowiki><span style="color:</code>{{Highlight round|#0000FF">|bc=#dadde3}}</nowikicode>">'''blue writing'''<nowiki></span></nowiki>'''</code> shows as <span style="color:#0000FF">blue writing</span>

===Template font colour {{anchors|Template font color}}===

[[Template:{{Tl|Font color]]}}, or its redirect [[Template:{{Tl|Font colour]]}}, can also be used.

{{tlx|Font colour|fontcolour|backgroundcolour|Your text here}}