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{{ 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.
{{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]])
N{{ font color | green | violet | the [[Wikipedia:Example]] page}} → the Wikipedia:Example page (Text with [[wikilink brackets]] overrides the designated color)
N{{ 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