Recent comments
| Colour Guide
3.555555 Average: 3.6 (9 votes) This guide was originally started by me to allow me to try and keep some consistency in the colours of my reputation levels. I stole a few colours from people (by eye) if they fitted my system and I liked them and now I've decided to publish it, I hope those people don't mind. Credit in the guide. This system is far from perfect, and there are a few near clashes. I hope it will help people with picking colours, though. PS, if you haven't already, have a browse of Jame's Guide Writing Guide, and download the firefox formatting toolbar!
If anyone thinks they have a better shade of any of the colours listed below, please comment And also if you think you have something that matches the colours shown here better than mine. I can't say I would recommend using ALL these codes in one guide. A reputation guide would probably want the reputation colours. A class guide would want skills and talents. A levelling guide would want Jame's formatting, and possible Manovan's Profession and the class colours. Reputation Formatting:
Jame's Levelling Guide Formatting:
Other Colours:
Raid UI Class Colours:
(While the Priest colour is white, I decided to use grey as white would not show up well on WoW-Pro) Jiyambi's Item Quality Colours:
Back to the topIf you want to add a colour table (or just one colour) copy the code here and stick it in the top of your guide, so people can see what you're using. Reputation: <ul> <li><span style="color:#cc0000"><b>Hated</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#ff0000"><b>Hostile</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#f26000"><b>Unfriendly</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#e4e400"><b>Neutral</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#33ff33"><b>Friendly</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#5fe65d"><b>Honoured</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#53e9bc"><b>Revered</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#2ee6e6"><b>Exalted</b></span></li> </ul> Back to the topJame's Levelling Formatting: <ul> <li><span style="color:#cc9933"><b>Quests</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#993300">Items</span></li> <li><span style="color:#33cc00">Locations</span></li> <li><b>Quest objectives to kill</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#4169e1">NPCs</span></li> <li><i>Coordinates</i></span></li> </ul> Back to the topOther Colours: <ul> <li><span style="color:#cc66cc"><b>Achievements</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#663300"><b>Professions</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#000099"><b>Skills</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#006600"><b>Talents</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#ff0000"><b>Addons/macros</b></span></li></span></li> </ul> Back to the topRaid UI Class Colours: <ul> <li><span style="color:#6600cc"><b>WARLOCK</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#33ccff"><b>MAGE</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#999999"><b>PRIEST</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#000099"><b>SHAMAN</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#c30000"><b>DEATH KNIGHT</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#7dd17d"><b>HUNTER</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#ff6600"><b>DRUID</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#cc9933"><b>WARRIOR</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#d7d700"><b>ROGUE</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#f392f3"><b>PALADIN</b></span></li> </ul> Back to the topJiyambi's Item Quality Colours <ul> <a name="itemcod"> </a> <li><span style="color:#f0940a"><b>[Legendary]</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#8c02cd"><b>[Epic]</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#2d2de1"><b>[Rare]</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#26c426"><b>[Uncommon]</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#cccccc"><b>[Common]</b></span></li> <li><span style="color:#ccb896"><b>[Heirloom]</b></span></li> </ul> Back to the top
| About the author:Server Main Character Brune is a level 80 enhancement shaman. Level of Addiction Guild User login |
Honored Member
Just thought I'd add a
Just thought I'd add a quick comment here - this guide's awesome!
Also, if you're using Firefox, it may be worth installing the text formatting toolbar which Jame reccomends, it allows you to add custom colours in a couple of clicks without knowing any codes.
"Wise is the man who knows he does not know"...
...Or who knows why my mother keeps calling me.
Revered Member
Good point. I do use that
Good point. I do use that toolbar, but I forgot to mention it. I will include that, or at least a link to Jame's guide writing guide, with perhaps a reiteration to use it.
I'm glad you find the guide useful
Revered Member
Code tags aren't working.
Code tags aren't working. Anyone know why?
Thanks
Administrator
Apparently they don't work
Apparently they don't work well with certain bbcode tags. I changed them to html and it works
Revered Member
Ah, thanks. I'll just switch
Ah, thanks. I'll just switch the nifty formatting toolbar to HTML for that section then.
Administrator
That's quite useful, good
That's quite useful, good idea.
Suggestion: I find that the colors for honored revered and exalted are too bright and a bit hard to see.
Try to find alternatives.
Revered Member
Well, I'd like to keep the
Well, I'd like to keep the general suggestion of the colour, seeing as that's what Wowwiki and the armoury do, but yeah, I'll darken them.
Revered Member
I've made them about 15%
I've made them about 15% darker. Hopefully that'll be enough.
Moderator
Looks better to me.
Looks better to me.
Something you have to realize is that WoWWiki, WoWhead, and even WoW itself have very dark backgrounds. Colors simply HAVE to be different on a white background for them to be readable. I know for a fact that this is one of the reasons WoWWiki uses the skin it does (I was there during their discussion of it!).
So unfortunately we can't use identical colors to those in game. But with the different backgrounds, these colors are really indistinguishable from the in game colors. You'd have to see them side by side to really notice a difference.
Revered Member
Ah, okay. It's like that
Ah, okay.
It's like that fadey optical illusion with the chessboard and the green thing casting the shadow, two colours that are the same look completely different because of their surroundings.
In fact this isn't quite the same, it's opposite, but still.
I suspect the fact I didn't search for the hex codes, I instead did it by eye helps with this
Revered Member
From above: Quote:I soon
From above:
Anyone got any ideas for the way to format the item colours to make them easier to see (for a guide that bothered to make the distinction between different types of item) and distinguish them from other colour scales.
Perhaps this is not necessary, though, as long as people post the table they're using at the top of their guide, confusion could be avoided (a reputation guide is unlikely to contain specific item colours; a disenchant/gearing guide is unlikely to contain rep values.)
Thanks for reading (I'm sure it was hard work)
Brune
Moderator
Just found this comment, I
Just found this comment, I know it's a long time after the question was posed, but for my guides I simply include [brackets] around item names. Seems simple enough to me!
P. S. I was checking this guide hoping to see code for item quality, and there's not any!
Here's my suggestion:
Exalted Member
Seriously can't read [12
Seriously can't read
[12 Pound Lobster]
&
[Dignified Headmaster's Charge]
they're just too bright.
Moderator
I just made them darker, I
I just made them darker, I don't think it makes them look any worse so lets keep it. They look better now Maw?
Exalted Member
Yeah, they look alot
Yeah, they look alot better!
Suggest you add it into your guide, Brune.
Oh, and yes, my 2nd screen (which I'm running internet on) is abit bright, so the colors are therefore still bright for me on this screen. But when I move the internet over to my main screen, the colors are just fine.
Revered Member
Not on my screeen, perhaps
Not on my screeen, perhaps you've got your gamma up high (or me low...)
Revered Member
Wow. Simple, yet elegant
Wow. Simple, yet elegant
I'll put them up.
Kicking myself for not thinking of that.
Honored Member
A slight correction: The
A slight correction:
The color I use for profession information is #663300.
I think I'll use the raid colors for the class information in my guides. It would make more sense.
Revered Member
Thanks, just fixed that. And
Thanks, just fixed that. And I'm very glad you're finding this useful
Moderator
Hey nice, that's very
Hey

nice, that's very useful!
As an improvement for more clarity you could use tables to arrange the colour "example" and it's code. A nice guide about tables can be found here
(but maybe use border="0", I don't like the borders
)
Jahwo
Revered Member
Okay, thanks for the help
Okay, thanks for the help improving my formatting skills, will do ASAP
Moderator
Very useful guide. However,
Very useful guide.
However, it should be moved to the guide writing category.
Also, you might want to try and figure out the colors for loot quality (green/blue/purple/legendary/heirloom). Just something fun to add
Revered Member
Hmm, good point.
I'll have to work out how out the most useful way to do that.
My advice for the use of this is to perhaps restrict the use of categories you use. A levelling guide would definitely want Jame's stuff, a rep guide might want the rep colours, a class guide would want yours, a levelling guide would want class colours (well, at least in Manovan's style, not Jame's).
And indeed, an item guide would want those colour codes.
In fact, I think I'll add that to the top.
EDIT: And yes, it should have been. The reason why, I presume was that at first I was not intending to publish, and therefore I didn't bother to change it. Thanks for pointing that out