color test

[Lumpy]

pink red orange

yellow brown

light green green

light blue blue dark blue

violet dark violet purple

[Patty_O_Furniture]

white

[Giraffe]

black

[HongKongFooey]

Plaid

[gotpasswords]

pink red orange

yellow brown

light green green

light blue blue dark blue

violet dark violet purple

Yep. Looks right.

[BigT]

@gotpasswords

pink red orange

yellow brown

light green green

light blue blue dark blue

violet dark violet purple

Yep. Looks right.

Nice (used “Nice” as the color, and edited)

[Lumpy]

@gotpasswords

[noparse]pink red orange

yellow brown

light green green

light blue blue dark blue

violet dark violet purple[/noparse]

Yep. Looks right.

“Navy”? “Olive”? I couldn’t find a list of color values the board recognizes, so I had to experiment. Some of these look identical to other colors. Anyone?

[Santos_L_Halper]

“Navy”? “Olive”? I couldn’t find a list of color values the board recognizes, so I had to experiment. Some of these look identical to other colors. Anyone?

When you’re composing a message, among the many things you can choose from is the text color. If you click on the little arrow it’ll bring up a dropdown selector for the 40 color choices:

Black
Sienna
DarkOliveGreen
DarkGreen
DarkSlateBlue
Navy
Indigo
DarkSlateGray
DarkRed
DarkOrange
Olive
Green
Teal
Blue
SlateGra
DimGray
Red
SandyBrown
YellowGreen
SeaGreen
MediumTurquois
RoyalBlue
Purple
Gray
Magenta
Orange
Yellow
Lime
Cyan
DeepSkyBlue
DarkOrchid
Silver
Pink
Wheat
LemonChiffon
PaleGreen
PaleTurquoise
LightBlue
Plum
White

[gotpasswords]

And then of course, is the minor nuttiness where you can use any arbitrary word as a color, and it will be interpreted.

My name is green

This color is boring and this color is delightful.
My name is {COLOR=“gotpasswords”]green[/COLOR]

This color is {COLOR=“boring”]boring [/COLOR]and this color is {COLOR=“delightful”]delightful[/COLOR].

[ultrafilter]

@gotpasswords

And then of course, is the minor nuttiness where you can use any arbitrary word as a color, and it will be interpreted.

My name is green

This color is boring and this color is delightful.
My name is {COLOR=“gotpasswords”]green[/COLOR]

This color is {COLOR=“boring”]boring [/COLOR]and this color is {COLOR=“delightful”]delightful[/COLOR].

Works in IE but not Firefox.

[Chronos]

Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero.

[Chronos]

…Or maybe not. That should be a light tealish color, but it isn’t showing up for me after all.

[ultrafilter]

@Chronos

Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero.

You had an extra 3 in there.

[Lumpy]

@Santos_L_Halper

When you’re composing a message, among the many things you can choose from is the text color. If you click on the little arrow it’ll bring up a dropdown selector for the 40 color choices:

Ah, I couldn’t get the color dropdown to work in my browser (older Netscape) but I see it in IE. Thanks.

@Chronos

Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero.

. So for example FFFF00 should give me yellow? (Preview: it does!)

[Lumpy]

dark magenta

sorta orange

sorta cyan

dark red

cool!

[Skywatcher]

Old thread: Fun with Colors.

[yojimbo]

Test post from my new phone. It’s my first really web friendly one.

[ETA: Yep. Worked great]