Thank you and please add more colors

An absolutely great, easy to use Equation Editor. Thank you!!! Colors make correspondence between the parts of the math easier for reader. Please add more colors. (I think you only have blue, red, green, white, yellow, black).

The colours you've listed are our background colour range, except yellow.

I've increase the range of foreground colours to include:

• red
• green
• blue
• cyan
• yellow
• magenta

To implement these for the background requires a lot more work, and will be included in our next revision of the backend engine. There are several things happening to this, so this will take a few weeks. Before we get to that, what other colours should we consider.

I personally don't want an infinite list, but perhaps 10-12 is reasonable within a dropdown. So what should these be?

Thanks so much! I just wanted foreground colors. Here are the ones I use that show up well and work for the colorblind too. Teal #008080 Purple #800080 Olive #808000 Navy #000080 Maroon #800000 --- Darkorange #FF8C00 DarkGoldenRod #B8860B DeepPink #FF1493 --- ... and the ones you said: magenta, green, blue, red Again, thank you!

BTW: I don't mind if they are not in the drop down menu - if I can type them in that is fine with me.

Hi,

The following colors are now available:

Apricot Aquamarine Bittersweet Black Blue BlueGreen BlueViolet BrickRed Brown BurntOrange CadetBlue CarnationPink Cerulean CornflowerBlue Cyan Dandelion DarkOrchid Emerald ForestGreen Fuchsia Goldenrod Gray Green GreenYellow JungleGreen Lavender LimeGreen Magenta Mahogany Maroon Melon MidnightBlue Mulberry NavyBlue OliveGreen Orange OrangeRed Orchid Peach Periwinkle PineGreen Plum ProcessBlue Purple RawSienna Red RedOrange RedViolet Rhodamine RoyalBlue RoyalPurple RubineRed Salmon SeaGreen Sepia SkyBlue SpringGreen Tan TealBlue Thistle Turquoise Violet VioletRed White WildStrawberry Yellow YellowGreen YellowOrange

as described on this page: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors

Lets pick a subset of these to include in the dropdown.

Again - I thank you so much for working on this. It means a lot to me.

But dang, I was so hoping that those 68 colors weren't the choices. I had found that page too and started to work from there when you asked. They are so horrible. Many look the same, few are really visible on a webpage and many "good" colors are missing. That is why I wrote my list and hoped it would be possible.

For those of you who want to see the "68" colors in action, I made up a webpage with formulas: http://geogebrawiki.wikispaces.com/ColorCogs+EE

But - in any event - I really appreciate you adding these colors! If no one else replies, I will get back to you with my subset :)

There really is no pleasing some people ;)

I didn't look close enough at your selection, but I take the point. This isn't as painful to do as I had feared so lets pull together a definitive list of extras and ditch the "68". So building on your list with a few minor changes:

• Defaults: Red, Blue, Green, Cyan, Yellow and Magenta
• Teal #008080
• Purple #800080
• Navy / DarkBlue #000080
• Maroon / DarkRed #800000
• Orange #FF6600 <- prefer this to #FF8C00
• DarkOrange #cc3300
• Golden #B8860B <- does anyone ever really use this (and can we just called it Golden)
• Pink #FF1493 <- what does a normal pink look like?
• DarkGreen #0080000
• Orchid #9900cc <- guess thats the name
• Emerald #00cc99

I think I favour simpler names, like Dark Red over Maroon as it makes translation to other languages easier.

That works for me! Great and again my many, many thanks. P.S. I use Golden or rather the similar but a bit greener DarkYellow (#808000) all the time.

Sorry to be a bother - Did you have to revert to the 68 LaTeX? I am not getting the above colors to work now, but the 68 appear to be working.

Ok. The new colors have been implemented. The default 68 are no longer available.