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A.7 List of colors
Normal colors
See Coloring objects for detailed usage syntax.
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black
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white
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red
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green
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blue
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cyan
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magenta
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yellow
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grey
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darkred
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darkgreen
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darkblue
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darkcyan
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darkmagenta
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darkyellow
CSS color names
CSS color names may be used as-is in string arguments.
CSS color definitions differ from X color names for the following
colors: green
, grey
, maroon
, purple
.
X color names
X11 color names offer a wider choice than CSS names. They come in several variants:
- Any name that is spelled as a single word with capitalization (e.g., ‘LightSlateBlue’) can also be spelled as space-separated words with or without capitalization (e.g., ‘light slate blue’).
- The word ‘grey’ can always be spelled ‘gray’ (e.g., ‘DarkSlateGray’), without any difference in the output.
- Some names can take a numerical suffix (e.g., ‘LightSalmon4’).
Use the Scheme function x11-color
to access them.
Color Names without a numerical suffix
The following table presents all color names that may be used without a numerical suffix.
Color names with a numerical suffix
A subset of the X11 color names may be used with a numerical
suffix in the range 1 to 4 to get darker shades. Note that
for such colors, color foo
is identical to color
foo1
.
Grey Scale
The set of X11 colors also contains a palette of 101 gray shades.
The table for color names greyN
looks the same.
Color-blind-safe colors
The Scheme function universal-color
provides
a set of eight colors
designed to be unambiguous to people with dichromatism.
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black
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orange
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skyblue
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bluegreen
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yellow
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blue
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vermillion
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redpurple
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