xcolor is a package which allows LaTeX users to paint the font or the background of their documents, thus adding vitality to their work.

At the beginning of your LaTeX document, where the other packages are listed, simply add the following code:

The basic color in LaTeX are

To color your text on a LaTeX document, add the following code before the text:

Another possibility to color your text is:

You can mix xcolor to color your text with other basic modifiers of latex text. For example, to write a yellow, emphasized and bold text, of normalsize, you can use one of the two following codes:

To overlap your text on a colorful background, you can type the following code:

To add a colorful frame to your box, you can write the following code:

Note: if inside your text you keep the default color, in both of the previous examples it is unnecessary to enclose the code

In this latter case you would only write:

In addition to the basic colors mentioned above, there are numerous other colors which can be implemented in your document. You should modify the xcolor package at the beginning of the document as following:

Below you can find a list of all the addional colors.

There are five different ways to create a new color. Firstly, include this code inside your LaTeX documents

Where "name" is the user chosen name for the color, "model" is the way you describe the color, and is one of "gray", "rgb", "RGB", .html", and "cmyk".