Colours

This note allows you to colour text and insert coloured boxes into your document. See Generating PS/PDF Documents for a list of available drivers.

Document Layout

% ...
\usepackage[DRIVER]{color}
% ...
\begin{document}
% ...
\end{document}

Coloured Text

\color{COLOR}{Text}

Coloured Box

% without frame
\colorbox{BACKGROUND_COLOUR}{TEXT}

% with frame
\fcolorbox{FRAME_COLOUR}{BACKGROUND_COLOUR}{Text}

Page Colour

\pagecolor{COLOUR}

Defining Colours

\definecolor{NAME}{MODEL}{SPEC}

Model and specification (MODEL: SPEC):

• rgb: comma separated list of three numbers in [0,1]

• cmyk: comma separated list of four numbers in [0,1]

• gray: single number in [0,1]