Help:Using colours

To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. bronze is #CD7F32) or HTML colour names (e.g. red).

Overriding font colour
To make a word have colour, use:

Examples:
 * shows as red writing
 * shows as green writing
 * shows as blue writing

Template:Fontcolor can also be used.

Examples:
 *  : :(it appears in green text).
 *  : :(no parameters are used for the text colour, only for the background)

Colour generation guide
The 3 colours are generated using the HSV colour space, then translated into RGB.
 * The method used for selecting the colours for various top-level pages, e.g. Main Page, Community Portal, Contents, and Help:Contents.


 * Easily generate similar palettes, from different starting hues, using colorblender.com

WikiQueer
WikiQueer uses this colour scheme on its Main Page.
 * Please note that the colour for the border on the lighter boxes is also the colour of the backgrounds of the darker (title) boxes.

And additionally on the Community Portal:

Additional 3-colour palettes using this same generation scheme are at the top of the talk page. In the Monobook skin, the background colour of WikiQueer pages is #F8FCFF. In the Vector skin, the background colour on all pages is #FFFFFF.

Commons
The Wikimedia Commons uses this colour scheme on commons:Main Page and commons:Help:Contents. Differing from the English WikiQueer, Commons does not use an extra, darker colour for bordering the header. Also, the colour sets are not derived from a hue the way the above table does.