# Enabling Colored Text

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [May 24, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343 "2018-05-24T04:15:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![GoToLoop](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/gotoloop/32/86_2.png) [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 4:15am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/1 "2018-05-24T04:15:30Z")

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I wish I could use some colors here too… 🖌

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kevin/32/2297_2.png) [@Kevin](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 4:48am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/2 "2018-05-24T04:48:37Z")

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Discourse does not support color out of the box. We could use a plugin to add text colors, but I’d advise against it.

The text we show should be short and obvious. I think @hamoid’s example was a good start, but we can probably shorten it a bit. As we come up with guidelines we can also link to those.

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**Author:** ![GoToLoop](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/gotoloop/32/86_2.png) [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/3 "2018-05-24T05:47:39Z")

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> [@Forum: catching badly formatted code posts](https://discourse.processing.org/t/forum-catching-badly-formatted-code-posts/226/7):
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> Discourse does not support color out of the box.

It’d be as easy as enabling this BBCode: [BBCode examples](http://www.BBCode.org/examples/?id=6)

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**Author:** ![Kevin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/kevin/32/2297_2.png) [@Kevin](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Kevin)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/4 "2018-05-24T06:09:27Z")

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> [@Forum: catching badly formatted code posts](https://discourse.processing.org/t/forum-catching-badly-formatted-code-posts/226/10):
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> It’d be as easy as enabling this BBCode:

Like I said, we could enable it using a plugin. But I don’t think we should.

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/5 "2018-05-25T20:08:57Z")

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What would the color be for? Manual syntax highlighting?

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**Author:** ![GoToLoop](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/gotoloop/32/86_2.png) [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/enabling-colored-text/343/6 "2018-05-25T20:25:41Z")

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Mostly yes! Usually I underline class/interface names and **bold** functions. 🧐  
It’d be much nicer if I could just choose a color for them. 🤩