Template:Font colour
Purpose
{ Font color } is how you insert colorized text, such as red, orange, green, blue and indigo, and many others. You can specify its background color at the same time.
{ Font color } is also how you can color wikilinks
to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colors.
Normally [[ wikilink ]] → wikilink,
but here we use a { font color } with |link =
to create a black wikilink →
wikilink
You can make any text link to any page using the |link=
parameter.
This template will use Wikipedia:HTML5 recommendations,
inserting the span tags
<span style="color:color">...</span>
and
<span style="background-color:color">...</span>
, so the page increases its readability and usability in both the wikitext and the rendered page.
Usage
{Font color} has a one-color and a two-color form:
- {font color | color | text }
- {font color | text color | background color | text }.
Either form has a |link= option, for colorizing (otherwise blue or red) wikilink text.
- |link=yes →
[[text]]
- |link=fullpagename →
[[fullpagename]]
You can also name the other fields.
- {font color | fg=color | text=text }
- {font color | fg=text color | bg=background color | text=text }
You can name |fg= or |bg=, which is nice, but... if you name either of them, you must also name |text=, which is a compromise. (See Help:Template#Parameters for why.)
Spacing is of no concern.
.
{font color|tan|green|text with four words}.
→.
text with four words.
.
{font color|tan|green|text with four words}.
→.
text with four words.
.
{ font color | tan | green | text with four words }.
→.
text with four words.
Parameters
Use / description | Default value | |
{1} | text color | inherited |
{2} | text | |
link | =yes or =fullpagename |
- Or
Use / description | Default value | |
{1} | text color | inherited |
{2} | background color | inherited |
{3} | text | |
link | =yes or =fullpagename |
Examples
Markup | Renders as |
---|---|
{ font color | green | green text }
|
green text |
{ font color | blue | do not style text as a link }
|
do not style text as a link |
{ font color || yellow | default text in yellow background }
|
default text in yellow background |
{ font color | bg=yellow | text = default text in yellow background }
|
default text in yellow background |
{ font color | white | black | white with black background }
|
white with black background |
{ font color | #ffffff | #000000 | white with black background } ([[hexadecimal colors]])
|
white with black background (hexadecimal colors) |
{ font color | rgb(255,255,255) | rgb(0,0,0) | white with black background }
|
white with black background |
Markup | Renders as |
---|---|
{ font color | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = yes }
|
Wikipedia:Example |
{ font color | white | blue | Wikipedia:Example | link = Wikipedia:Sandbox }
|
Wikipedia:Example |
{ font color | text = Wikipedia:Example | link = Wikipedia:Sandbox | bg
= blue | fg = white }
|
Wikipedia:Example |
The |link=
parameter is a good way to colorize wikilinks,
and it is about as much typing as the pipe trick.
Although a wikilink accepts a font color (or other template or markup):
[[Wikipedia:Example|{font color|white|blue|the Wikipedia:Example page}]]
- → the Wikipedia:Example page (a font-colored link),
a font color does not accept a wikilink, it creates wikilinks itself with |link=
.
{ font color | green | violet | Wikipedia:Example | link=yes } → Wikipedia:Example (a
|link=
{ font color }){ font color | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
{ font color | green | violet | [[Wikipedia:Exammple]] } → the Wikipedia:Exammple page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
For more examples see /testcases. For actual mainspace template usage, here are search links for
- all usage.
- where
|link=
is used. - hastemplate: "font color" prefix:F showing its use in articles whose title begins with the letter "F".
See also

- Important Manual of Style information
- Web colors
- HTML color names
- List of colors
- Help: Link color
- {color}
- {background color}
- {coltit} — colored table header cell
- {color contrast ratio}
- {hilite}
- {font}
- {tq}
- {xt}