Colors

Setting the page background colour

The background colour of the entire page can be easily changed with \pagecolor. See the next example:

\pagecolor{black}
\color{white}

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The command \pagecolor{black} set the page colour to black. This is a switch command, meaning it will take effect in the entire document unless another switch command is used to revert it. \nopagecolor will change the background back to normal.

Open an example of the xcolor package in Overleaf

Reference guide

Basic colour names available in LATEX

white, black, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow

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Colour names available with the dvipsnames option

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