Package xcolor by Dr. Uwe Kern

Version 2024-09-29 v3.02

Maintained by the LaTeX Project https://github.com/latex3/xcolor/issues

xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of colors, tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors by means of color expressions like \color{red!50!green!20!blue}. It allows to select a document-wide target color model and offers tools for automatic color schemes, conversion between nine color models, alternating table row colors, color blending and masking, color separation, and color wheel calculations.

Copyright (C)

• 2003-2021 Dr. Uwe Kern
• 2021-2024 The LaTeX Project

License

LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later.

Installation instructions

• Extract all package files:

  latex xcolor.ins
  

• Put the generated files to their respective locations within the TeX installation:

  *.sty -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.def -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.pro -> /dvips/xcolor/
  

• Create the documentation:

  latex xcolor.dtx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  makeindex -s gind.ist xcolor.idx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  

• Run the test files (N=1,2,...):

  latex xcolorN.tex
  latex xcolorN.tex
  

Notes

• xcolor1.tex should run with both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, it yields a 50-page document with several systematic color conversion examples
• xcolor2.tex is a 3-page pstricks example document that won't run with pdfLaTeX
• xcolor3.tex is a 2-page example for demonstrating several display and logging facilities
• xcolor4.tex is a 1-page driver test file; uncomment the relevant code line in the header and run it with the appropriate program, e.g., latex xcolor4 or any other processor; apply any desired post-processing like dvips, dvipdfm, etc.
• If the file xcolor.ins is missing, run latex xcolor.dtx once and quit the LaTeX compiler as soon as the first error message appears.

History

See file ChangeLog.