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0120 <h4 class="subsection">21.3.2 Colored text</h4>
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0124 
0125 <p>Synopses:
0126 </p>
0127 <div class="example">
0128 <pre class="example">\textcolor{<var>name</var>}{...}
0129 \textcolor[<var>color model</var>]{<var>color specification</var>}{...}
0130 </pre></div>
0131 
0132 <p>or
0133 </p>
0134 <div class="example">
0135 <pre class="example">\color{<var>name</var>}
0136 \color[<var>color model</var>]{<var>specification</var>}
0137 </pre></div>
0138 
0139 <p>The affected text gets the color.  This line
0140 </p>
0141 <div class="example">
0142 <pre class="example">\textcolor{magenta}{My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:}
0143 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
0144 </pre></div>
0145 
0146 <p>causes the first half to be in magenta while the rest is in black.  You
0147 can use a color declared with <code>\definecolor</code> in exactly the same
0148 way that we just used the builtin color &lsquo;<samp>magenta</samp>&rsquo;.
0149 </p>
0150 <div class="example">
0151 <pre class="example">\definecolor{MidlifeCrisisRed}{rgb}{1.0,0.11,0.0}
0152 I'm thinking about getting a \textcolor{MidlifeCrisisRed}{sports car}.
0153 </pre></div>
0154 
0155 <p>The two <code>\textcolor</code> and <code>\color</code> differ in that the first is
0156 a command form, enclosing the text to be colored as an argument.  Often
0157 this form is more convenient, or at least more explicit.  The second
0158 form is a declaration, as in <code>The moon is made of {\color{green}
0159 green} cheese</code>, so it is in effect until the end of the current group
0160 or environment.  This is sometimes useful when writing macros or as
0161 below where it colors everything inside the <code>center</code> environment,
0162 including the vertical and horizontal lines.
0163 </p>
0164 <div class="example">
0165 <pre class="example">\begin{center} \color{blue}
0166   \begin{tabular}{l|r}
0167     UL &amp;UR \\ \hline
0168     LL &amp;LR 
0169   \end{tabular}
0170 \end{center}
0171 </pre></div>
0172 
0173 <p>You can use color in equations.  A document might have this definition
0174 in the preamble
0175 </p>
0176 <div class="example">
0177 <pre class="example">\definecolor{highlightcolor}{RGB}{225,15,0}
0178 </pre></div>
0179 
0180 <p>and then contain this equation.
0181 </p>
0182 <div class="example">
0183 <pre class="example">\begin{equation}
0184   \int_a^b \textcolor{highlightcolor}{f'(x)}\,dx=f(b)-f(a)
0185 \end{equation}
0186 </pre></div>
0187 
0188 <p>Typically the colors used in a document are declared in a class or style
0189 but sometimes you want a one-off.  Those are the second forms in the
0190 synopses.
0191 </p>
0192 <div class="example">
0193 <pre class="example">Colors of \textcolor[rgb]{0.33,0.14,0.47}{Purple} and
0194 {\color[rgb]{0.72,0.60,0.37} Gold} for the team.
0195 </pre></div>
0196 
0197 <p>The format of <var>color specification </var> depends on the color model
0198 (see <a href="Color-models.html#Color-models">Color models</a>).  For instance, while <code>rgb</code> takes three
0199 numbers, <code>gray</code> takes only one.
0200 </p>
0201 <div class="example">
0202 <pre class="example">The selection was \textcolor[gray]{0.5}{grayed out}.
0203 </pre></div>
0204 
0205 <p>Colors inside colors do not combine.  Thus
0206 </p>
0207 <div class="example">
0208 <pre class="example">\textcolor{green}{kind of \textcolor{blue}{blue}}
0209 </pre></div>
0210 
0211 <p>has a final word that is blue, not a combination of blue and green.
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