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Prose text intended for readers should never be manually colored. (MOS:PROSECOLOR)
{{color}} can be used to specify the foreground color of a span of text. Acceptable values areRGB hex codes, e.g. #C9E72A, or any of theweb colors: red, blue, green, moccasin, darkorchid, etc. To set the background color of a span of text, use{{background color}}.
This template does not function in dark mode. If you have a use case for color in your page, you should try to use an existing more-specific template (such as{{increase}} or{{xt}}).
However, if youreally need this functionality, you can append a space and!important after the color. For example:
