Version 2024-03-13 v3.02

Maintained by the LaTeX Project https://github.com/latex3/xcolor/issues

xcolor provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of colors, tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors by means of color expressions like \color{red!50!green!20!blue}. It allows to select a document-wide target color model and offers tools for automatic color schemes, conversion between nine color models, alternating table row colors, color blending and masking, color separation, and color wheel calculations.

• 2003-2021 Dr. Uwe Kern
• 2021-2024 The LaTeX Project

LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later.

• Extract all package files:

  latex xcolor.ins
  

• Put the generated files to their respective locations within the TeX installation:

  *.sty -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.def -> /tex/latex/xcolor/
  *.pro -> /dvips/xcolor/
  

• Create the documentation:

  latex xcolor.dtx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  makeindex -s gind.ist xcolor.idx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  latex xcolor.dtx
  

• Run the test files (N=1,2,...):

  latex xcolorN.tex
  latex xcolorN.tex
  

• xcolor1.tex should run with both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX, it yields a 50-page document with several systematic color conversion examples
• xcolor2.tex is a 3-page pstricks example document that won't run with pdfLaTeX
• xcolor3.tex is a 2-page example for demonstrating several display and logging facilities
• xcolor4.tex is a 1-page driver test file; uncomment the relevant code line in the header and run it with the appropriate program, e.g., latex xcolor4 or any other processor; apply any desired post-processing like dvips, dvipdfm, etc.
• If the file xcolor.ins is missing, run latex xcolor.dtx once and quit the LaTeX compiler as soon as the first error message appears.

See file ChangeLog.