I didn't find a good
LaTeX color reference while googling, so I made my own short color overview.
By default there are 6 colors available within LaTeX:
red,
green,
blue,
cyan,
yellow and
magenta (as well as the "non-colors"
black and
white).
By using the
colors package, another
66 colors become available. You can then use these colors to colorize some pieces of text or - more practically - change the colors of the links generated by the hyperref package.
I found some websites that
list the color names, but dont show how the colors actually look like. Well, I just changed that, see the screenshot or download the PDF and see for yourself. All you need to do is implement the following in the header of your LaTeX file:
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} (if using pdfLaTeX).
LaTeX-Colors.pdf
LaTeX-Colors.tex
These are the available colors, in a somewhat rainbowy order:
GreenYellow, Yellow, Goldenrod, Dandelion, Apricot, Tan, Melon, Peach, YellowOrange, BurntOrange, Orange, RedOrange, Bittersweet, Mahogany, Maroon, Brown, Sepia, RawSienna, BrickRed, Red, OrangeRed, RubineRed, WildStrawberry, Magenta, VioletRed, Rhodamine, CarnationPink, Salmon, Lavender, Thistle, Orchid, Mulberry, RedViolet, DarkOrchid, Purple, Plum, Fuchsia, Violet, RoyalPurple, BlueViolet, Blue, Periwinkle, CadetBlue, MidnightBlue, NavyBlue, RoyalBlue, Cerulean, CornflowerBlue, Cyan, ProcessBlue, SkyBlue, Turquoise, TealBlue, Aquamarine, BlueGreen, Emerald, JungleGreen, SeaGreen, Green, OliveGreen, ForestGreen, PineGreen, LimeGreen, YellowGreen, SpringGreen, Gray
Rafael: Thank you very much, I was having a huge headache to solve the very same problem!