Working with Colors

Throughout libxlsxwriter colors are specified using a Html style RGB integer value. For example with a Format object:

format_set_font_color(format, 0x3030E0);

For convenience a limited number of color names are supported:

format_set_font_color(format, LXW_COLOR_RED);

The color names and corresponding RRGGBB value are shown below:

Color	Define	Value
Black	LXW_COLOR_BLACK	0x1000000 (note)
Blue	LXW_COLOR_BLUE	0x0000FF
Brown	LXW_COLOR_BROWN	0x800000
Cyan	LXW_COLOR_CYAN	0x00FFFF
Gray	LXW_COLOR_GRAY	0x808080
Green	LXW_COLOR_GREEN	0x008000
Lime	LXW_COLOR_LIME	0x00FF00
Magenta	LXW_COLOR_MAGENTA	0xFF00FF
Navy	LXW_COLOR_NAVY	0x000080
Orange	LXW_COLOR_ORANGE	0xFF6600
Pink	LXW_COLOR_PINK	0xFF00FF
Purple	LXW_COLOR_PURPLE	0x800080
Red	LXW_COLOR_RED	0xFF0000
Silver	LXW_COLOR_SILVER	0xC0C0C0
White	LXW_COLOR_WHITE	0xFFFFFF
Yellow	LXW_COLOR_YELLOW	0xFFFF00

Note

Black in Html is actually 0x000000 but #LXW_COLOR_BLACK is defined as 0x1000000 to avoid confusion with an undefined or Zero color value. It is converted to the correct Html code internally.

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