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I'm writing my PhD thesis and I am using the Oxford Thesis Template. I would like to change the color of the chapter number (which is grey) in the beginning of this chapter. You can find the Oxford Thesis Template here http://www.oxfordechoes.com/oxford-thesis-template/ .
Have tried all kinds of things to no effect, I'd be very thankful for a solution!
Thanks.
The font used for the chapter number is Euler Roman bold at 70pt, because of the eulerchapternumbers option. If you omit it, Palatino would be used.
If you want to use the same typeface as the one used for the chapter title, then you can add to the preamble
\renewcommand{\chapterNumber}{%
\fontsize{70}{70}\usefont{\encodingdefault}{\sfdefault}{b}{n}}
Here's a preamble with some changes (I've removed the packages not essential for the example):
\documentclass[headinclude,footinclude,openany,paper=a4,fontsize=12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % recommended for languages different from English
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % recommended for inputting accented characters
\usepackage[pdfspacing]{classicthesis}
\usepackage{arsclassica}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} % times is obsolete
\usepackage[scaled=.9]{helvet} % scaling is recommended
\renewcommand{\chapterNumber}{%
\fontsize{70}{70}\usefont{\encodingdefault}{\sfdefault}{b}{n}}
\begin{document}
\mainmatter
\chapter{Un titolo}
\end{document}
Change the number 70 to what suits you best. However, using Times and Helvetica is really like killing the ClassicThesis project and arsclassica.
Under an 11pt document class option in book, \huge is defined as
\newcommand\huge{\@setfontsize\huge\@xxpt{25}}
which sets the font size to \@xxpt, or 20.47pt; see What point (pt) font size are \Large etc.?
Also, since you're using the explicit option with titlesec, placement of font and colour-related changes is best accompanied with the #1 argument as part of \titleformat:
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{}{}{0pt}{\normalfont\color{cyan}\huge\bfseries#1}[\leavevmode\thispagestyle{fancy}]
Best Answer
I don't know if you want to change grey to another colour or to black (which is a colour anyway), but adding this line to the preamble (and
x11namesto the document class):produces this chapter heading: