What is font color in excel

Color is sometimes used to convey meaning beyond the basic text. In a course syllabus, for example, you may use color to emphasize an important statement. Or, on a PowerPoint slide showing a multiple choice question, you might show the correct answer in green and color the incorrect answers in red.

What is font color?

{{ Font color }} is how you insert colorized text, such as red, orange, green, blue and indigo, and many others. You can specify its background color at the same time. {{ Font color }} is also how you can color wikilinks to something other than blue for when you need to work within background colors.

What is font color in MS Word?

The Font Color button shows which color it assigns to text. To change the color, click the menu triangle to the button’s left and choose a color from the menu displayed. To restore the font color, choose Automatic from the Font Color menu. The Automatic color is set by the text style.

Where is the font color?

On the Home tab, in the Font group, choose the arrow next to Font Color, and then select a color. You can also use the formatting options on the Mini toolbar to quickly format text.

Why is font colour important?

Just like fonts help add to the imagery of your text content, colour has a big impact on the psychology of your written word as well. Colour helps call attention to your text, but you may not realize that colours also evoke emotions. Here are the different feelings that colours can make your audience feel.

What is text Colour in HTML?

The HTML color Attribute is used to specify the text color inside the element. Syntax: Attention reader!

What is font color in Excel?

Right-click the worksheet tab whose color you want to change. Choose Tab Color, and then select the color you want. The color of the tab changes, but not the color of the font. When you choose a dark tab color, the font switches to white, and when you choose a light color for the tab, the font switches to black.

What is font in MS Word?

A font is a graphical representation of text that may include a different typeface, point size, weight, color, or design.Software programs like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and WordPad allow users to change the font when typing text in the document or spreadsheet, as do web designers.

What is a font style?

In a web browser, font style is a CSS (custom style sheet) property used in HTML and ASP.NET programming, defining the font style for text. There are four possible options for font style. normal. italic.

How do you color in Word?

Go to Design > Page Color. Choose the color you want. If you don’t see the color you want, select More Colors and then pick a color from any of the options in the Color box.

What is the code for colors?

Major hexadecimal color codes

What does yellow font mean?

Yellow: Yellow is frequently used to grab your attention. It stands out, is bold, and is frequently used. However, being so bold, people can find it repulsive and even ignore it. Common yellow brands include McDonalds and Subway.

What is background Colour and text Colour?

The background-color property sets the background color of an element. The background of an element is the total size of the element, including padding and border (but not the margin). Tip: Use a background color and a text color that makes the text easy to read. Default value: transparent.

How do I use font color in HTML?

To set the font color in HTML, use the style attribute. The style attribute specifies an inline style for an element. The attribute is used with the HTML

tag, with the CSS property color. HTML5 do not support the tag, so the CSS style is used to add font color.

How do you color text in HTML?

The most common way of coloring HTML text is by using hexadecimal color codes (Hex code for short). Simply add a style attribute to the text element you want to color – a paragraph in the example below – and use the color property with your Hex code.

What is font style in HTML?

Some Font Examples

What is a font in Excel?

Fonts in Excel
The font is the style and/or size of your text and characters. Changing the font of your numbers and text in an Excel worksheet can help your document to look more appealing and, at times, make it easier for the reader to digest the information.

How do I identify a font in Excel?

Changing font type, size, and color

1. Select a cell or range of cells.
2. Click the down arrow to the right of the Font Name list box on the Formatting toolbar.
3. A drop-down list of available fonts appears.
4. Click the typeface of your choice.
5. The selection list closes, and the new font is applied to the selected cells.

How do I color one text in Excel?

Apply conditional formatting based on text in a cell

1. Select the cells you want to apply conditional formatting to. Click the first cell in the range, and then drag to the last cell.
2. Click HOME > Conditional Formatting > Highlight Cells Rules > Text that Contains.
3. Select the color format for the text, and click OK.

What is an example of a font?

For example Garamond, Times, and Arial are typefaces. Whereas font is a specific style of typeface with a set width, size, and weight. For example, Arial is a typeface; 16pt Arial Bold is a font. So typeface is the creative part and font is the structure.

How many fonts are there?

What Font Is, a free font finder uses a catalogue of 550,000+ fonts which leads me to believe there are at least half a million fonts in existance. A quick search in MyFonts, the largest distributor of commercial fonts, shows them housing over 130,000 fonts which fall into: Font familes: 36,000+

Format Fonts

You can format fonts in four different ways: color, font name, size and other characteristics.

Font Color

The default color for fonts is black.

Colors are applied to fonts by using the «Font color» function.

How to apply colors to fonts

1. Select cell
2. Select font color
3. Type text

The font color goes for both numbers and text.

The Font color command remembers the color used last time.

Note: Custom colors are applied in the same way for both cells and fonts. You can read more about it in the Apply colors to cells chapter.

Lets try an example, step by step:

1. Select standard font color Red
2. Type A1(Hello)
3. Hit enter
4. Select standard font color Green
5. Type B1(World!)
6. Hit enter

Font Name

The default font in Excel is Calibri.

The font name can be changed for both numbers and text.

Why change the font name in Excel?

• Make the data easier to read
• Make the presentation more appealing

How to change the font name:

1. Select a range
2. Click the font name drop down menu
3. Select a font

Let’s have a look at an example.

1. Select A1:C4
2. Click the font name drop down menu
3. Select Arial

The example has both text (A1:B1) and numbers (A4:C4)

Good job! You have successfully changed the fonts from Calibri to Arial for the range A1:C4.

Font Size

To change the font size of the font, just click on the font size drop down menu:

Font Characteristics

You can apply different characteristics to fonts such as:

• Bold
• Italic
• Underlined
• Strike though

The commands can be found below the font name drop down menu:

Bold is applied by either clicking the Bold (B) icon in the Ribbon or using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + B or Command + B

Italic is applied by either clicking the Italic (I) icon or using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + I or Command + I

Underline is applied by either clicking the Underline (U) icon or using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + U or Command + U

Strikethrough is applied by either clicking the Strikethrough (ab) icon or using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + 5 or Command + Shift + X

Chapter Summary

Fonts can be changed in four different ways: color, font name, size and other characteristics. The fonts are changed to make the spreadsheet more readable and delicate.

Written by Puneet for Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016, Excel 2019, Excel for Mac

Key Notes

• To make changes in a font, you need to use the VBA Font object.
• There is a total of 18 properties with the font object that you can access and make changes.

VBA Font Object

In VBA, there is a font object which you can use to change properties of the font from a cell, like, font color, font size, font type, and you can also apply bold and italic to the font.

Syntax

expression.font

To use it, first, you need to define the cell address, which you can specify in the following ways.

Selection.Font
Range("A1").Font
Cells(1, 1).Font
Range("A1:A5").Font

To change the color of the font, you have two different ways:

1. Using Color Constants

Excel has a few color constants that you can use to apply color to the font. For example, if you want to apply the red color to the font in cell A1, the code would be like the below:

Range("A1").Font.Color = vbRed

In the above code, after the font object, color is the property and you have used the vbRed constant that tells VBA to apply the red color to the cell A1. There is a total of eight constants that you can use:

1. vbBlack: Black
2. vbRed: Red
3. vbGreen: Green
4. vbYellow: Yellow
5. vbBlue: Blue
6. vbMagenta: Magenta
7. vbCyan: Cyan
8. vbWhite: White

2. Using RGB

You can also use the RGB color code to apply color to the font. RGB is the combination of red, green, and blue colors, where you can create a custom color using the code. Let’s say if you want to apply a combination of green and blue color to cell A1 the code would be:

Range("A1").Font.Color = RGB(0, 255, 255)

VBA Font Size

Font object also gives you access to the size property of the font. Let’s say you want to apply the font size of 16 to the font in the cell A1, the code would be:

Range("A1").Font.Size = 16

If you want to apply font size to all cells in a worksheet you can use the following code:

Cells.Font.Size = 16

And if only want to apply font size to cells where you have data, the code would be:

ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Font.Size = 16

Or to the selected cell.

Selection.Font.Size = 16

VBA Font Name

In the same way, you can also change the font name using the name property of the font object. Let’s say you want to apply the “Consolas” font the cell A1. The code would be:

Range("A1").Font.Name = "Consolas"

While using this property, you need to type the correct name of the font that you want to apply, and if somehow the name is incorrect, it won’t show you an error.

VBA Font Bold, Italic, and Underline

There are also properties that you can use to make the font bold, italic, and underline. Below are the codes that you need to write for this.

Range("A1").Font.Bold = True
Range("A1").Font.Italic = True
Range("A1").Font.Underline = True

With these properties, you need to define TRUE or FALSE. So if the font is already bold or italic and you want to remove it, then you need to use FALSE to remove them.

Other Useful Font Properties

Here add a few more properties that can be useful for you (Strikethrough, Subscript, and Superscript).

Range("A1").Font.Strikethrough = True
Range("A1").Font.Subscript = True
Range("A1").Font.Superscript = True

You have received an Excel file and somebody has highlighted text with a different font color? If you are talking about a few cells only – no problem. But what, if you file has hundreds of rows? How do you return the fore color from the text (or number) cells?

Method 1: Do it manually with these tricks

Unfortunately, Excel does not provide any built-in method to retrieve the font color of the cell. That – as usually – means that you have to use a VBA macro. But let’s take a step back. Do you really need the font color code retrieved by a function? Yes, there might be reasons, for example when you want to automate or frequently update the file. But if that’s not the case, why don’t we look for a workaround?

Use the filter by color function

The filter in Excel is very powerful. Besides normal filtering, it can also sort data or filter and sort by color. If the items in your list or table have different colors (also background colors), the “Filter by Color” option is not greyed-out.

So, just filter here for your desired color and then you can add color labels (for example “red” in the column next to the filtered column).

Use the Find function to select cells by font color

If you want to search for specific colors, you can use the Excel Find window to search for a format.

1. Open the Find and Replace window by pressing Ctrl + F on the keyboard.
2. Click on “Format”.
3. On the Font tab, select the color you want to search for.
4. Confirm with OK.
5. Click on “Find All”.
6. Select all the search results. Excel then selects automatically the respective cells in your workbook.

Method 2: Return the font color with a short VBA macro

Return the index of the fore color

If you just need the color index, you can use the following very simple VBA macro. Open the VBA editor (Alt + F11 on the keyboard), insert a new module and paste the following code. Please refer to this article for all the steps in detail.

Function ProfessorExcelFontColor(cell As Range)
    ProfessorExcelFontColor = cell.Font.Color
End Function

Back in your worksheet, type the following function (replace B5 with your desire cell reference):

=ProfessorExcelFontColor(B5)

Return the RGB code for the font color

Similar to the previous VBA macro (above), you can insert a slightly modified version. It returns the RGB code of the font color.

Again, open the VBA editor window (press Alt + F11 on the keyboard), insert a new module and paste the following source code.

Function ProfessorExcelFontRGB(cell As Range)
    Dim PROFEXColorIndex As Long
    Dim PROFEXColor As Variant

    PROFEXColorIndex = cell.Font.Color
    
    PROFEXColor = PROFEXColorIndex Mod 256
       
    PROFEXColor = PROFEXColor & ", "
    PROFEXColor = PROFEXColor & (PROFEXColorIndex  256) Mod 256
       
    PROFEXColor = PROFEXColor & ", "
    PROFEXColor = PROFEXColor & (PROFEXColorIndex  256  256) Mod 256

    ProfessorExcelFontRGB = PROFEXColor
End Function

In your Excel cell, use the following function. Again, please replace the B5 with your cell reference.

=ProfessorExcelFontRGB(B5)

Method 3: Comfortably return the text color with Professor Excel Tools

This is probably the most convenient method: Use our Excel add-in “Professor Excel Tools”. Install the add-in and type

=PROFEXFontColor(B16,FALSE)

for the font index and

=PROFEXFontColor(B16,TRUE)

for the RGB value.

Or, you need a little bit more guidance? Insert the PROFEX function with the function tool:

1. Click on Function on the Professor Excel ribbon.
2. Select the function to insert (here: PROFEXFontColor).
3. As the cell reference, type or select the cell with the font color you want to return.
4. Type TRUE for the RGB value or FALSE for the color index.
5. Click on “Insert Function”.

Easy, right? And the best: Although the free trial version expires after 7 days, this function you can continue to use. It’s free. The reason is that if you collaborate with someone else the =PROFEX() functions should work for all users – even if they don’t have the unlimited license.

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