HTML TADS Colours

Colours

Colour Names supported by HTML TADS

Background Colours	Text Colours on Black	Text Colours on White
black	black	black
silver	silver	silver
gray	gray	gray
white	white	white
maroon	maroon	maroon
red	red	red
purple	purple	purple
fuchsia	fuchsia	fuchsia
green	green	green
lime	lime	lime
olive	olive	olive
yellow	yellow	yellow
navy	navy	navy
blue	blue	blue
teal	teal	teal
aqua	aqua	aqua

Couple of notes here. First, these are just the colours that HTML TADS supports by name. You can always specify any arbitrary colour you like simply by specifying that colour’s hexadecimal colour values. Second, remember that there are some real portability issues with colours. A colour that looks legible or attractive on your monitor may well be illegible or ghastly on someone else’s. So you should be very careful when colours are concerned.

Luckily, players can override your colour choices by going to a preferences setting in their software, so if things get really bad I’m sure most people will switch colour sets if they know how to do it.