Working with Colors#

Throughout XlsxWriter colors are specified using a Html style #RRGGBB value. For example with a Format object:

cell_format.set_font_color('#FF0000')

For backward compatibility a limited number of color names are supported:

cell_format.set_font_color('red')

The color names and corresponding #RRGGBB value are shown below:

Color name

RGB color code

black

#000000

blue

#0000FF

brown

#800000

cyan

#00FFFF

gray

#808080

green

#008000

lime

#00FF00

magenta

#FF00FF

navy

#000080

orange

#FF6600

pink

#FF00FF

purple

#800080

red

#FF0000

silver

#C0C0C0

white

#FFFFFF

yellow

#FFFF00