# Test colours from phone **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 9, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414 "2011-07-09T15:15:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/1 "2011-07-09T15:15:29Z")
test ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/2 "2011-07-09T15:20:23Z")
[color=‘green’] test [\color] ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/3 "2011-07-09T15:21:59Z")
Hmm - swype doesn’t have double quotation marks. Doesn’t seem to work with single ones. ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/4 "2011-07-09T15:31:04Z")
[color=“green”] test [\color] ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/5 "2011-07-09T15:34:23Z")
test ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/6 "2011-07-09T15:35:49Z")
Finally 🙂 through a combination of figuring out where the double quotation mark is and getting the slash the right way round. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/7 "2011-07-09T16:43:20Z")
You don’t need quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/8 "2011-07-09T17:17:51Z")
[colour=green]Green[/colour] Bloody Americans. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/9 "2011-07-09T18:10:06Z")
Green ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/10 "2011-07-09T18:33:06Z")
Supergreen. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/11 "2011-07-09T18:45:07Z")
[color=“ultrafilter”]Green Edit: Guess they fixed that bug. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/12 "2011-07-09T18:52:23Z")
**It’s not easy being.** ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/13 "2011-07-09T19:21:33Z")
White ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/14 "2011-07-09T20:42:24Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > [colour=green]Green[/colour] > > Bloody Americans. Bloody Brits. or should that be Bloudy Brits? ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/15 "2011-07-09T20:56:53Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > Bloody Brits. or should that be Bloudy Brits? It probably shold be. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/16 "2011-07-09T21:06:22Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Green > > Edit: Guess they fixed that bug. Oh well. [color=BigT]No they didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/17 "2011-07-09T21:13:09Z")
My colour is not particularly pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/18 "2011-07-09T21:20:19Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > No they didn’t. Bloody hell. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2011, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/19 "2011-07-10T17:36:20Z")
Hey, that’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2011, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414/20 "2011-07-11T05:51:55Z")
Mine’s not fun either. : ( ETA: [Other colors.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A529715) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-colours-from-phone/588414.md?page=2)