Help:Using colours
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This page is about the use of colours in articles. For the civility essay dealing with colours, see Wikipedia:Don't edit war over the colour of templates. For guidelines on colour use, see MOS:COLOUR. For the help page about link color, see H:LC. For the help page about user contributions, see WP:UCP.
To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. bronze is #CD7F32) or HTML color names (e.g. red).
This help page is a how-to guide. It details processes or procedures of some aspect(s) of Wikipedia's norms and practices. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, and may reflect varying levels of consensus and vetting. |
Links should clearly be identifiable as links to readers. Refrain from implementing coloured links that may impede user ability to distinguish links from regular text, or colour links for purely aesthetic reasons. See the guides to editing articles for accessibility at contrast, accessibility and navbox colors. |
Editors are encouraged to make use of Brewer palettes for charts, maps, and other entities, using this tool.