More Custom Text Colors

[alisa180]

For a project, I need a lot different custom text colors. At least 20, possibly more. However, Scrivener seems to support only 16 different custom text colors. Is there any way to have more custom text colors, or even possibly change the color presets?

[Daniela_Wolfe]

This is an entry from the scrivener manual which should help (number 2 in particular):

17.4 Text Colour and Highlights
Text colour can be applied to your document, like switching to a coloured pen, in a
fashion similar to any other formatting range. Select the text you wish to change the
colour on, and either use the Format>Font>Text Colors sub-menu, or use the text
colour selector (letter ‘A’ with an underscore in colour) in the format bar to set the
colour. The format bar will remember the last colour you have used, so it easy to
rapidly apply the same colour to multiple text selections with a single click. If you
wish to change the colour, click the down-arrow beside the text colour control.
The menu will contain the following functions:

1. Built-in presets (black, red, etc.)
   2. “More. . . ” which presents the custom colour chooser
2. “Remove Color”

Setting a marker highlight to a range of text is quite similar, use the icon of a high-
lighter pen (which will be coloured depending upon the last highlight you used; yel-
low by default) on the format bar, instead. As with the text colour tool, clicking once
will re-use the last highlighter colour, and clicking on the down-arrow will access
the full menu. For highlighters, this can also be accessed in the Format>Highlight sub-menu.

[alisa180]

That’s exactly what I did. I selected several custom colors. However, the maximum limit on said custom colors appears to be 16 and I need 20. Hence my question. Is there any way around this? Or maybe even another way to apply custom text color (i.e. html and css)? All of my googling has turned up bunk. I really need to know this, because the colors are a vital part of my story.

[Daniela_Wolfe]

@alisa180

That’s exactly what I did. I selected several custom colors. However, the maximum limit on said custom colors appears to be 16 and I need 20. Hence my question. Is there any way around this? Or maybe even another way to apply custom text color (i.e. html and css)? All of my googling has turned up bunk. I really need to know this, because the colors are a vital part of my story.

My apologies somehow I misinterpreted your question.
You can only save 16, but you can apply as many as you like . Simply select the text you want changed the, open the color selector and chose the one you want then press ‘OK’. This should change the text to the desired color.

[JJSlote]

You could paste some sample text into the Scratch Pad or Project Notes in your desired colors. Then, to deploy a color, you’d copy out the matching snippet, and run “Paste Formatting” over the selected text in your document. Unfortunately, you’d then likely have to reapply other text formatting and links to the newly colored text.

Rgds – Jerome