[Tex/LaTex] Change the color of three first letters in awesome CV (posquito) from red to blue

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I am currently using Posquito's CV template however I can not change the color from red to blue. In awesome-cv.cls, line 148, I changed the setting \colorlet{awesome}{awesome-red} to skyblue but without success. Any tip would be highly appreciated.

Best Answer

The main colour theme used throughout awesome-cv's documents is the colour awesome. It can be \colorlet to awesome-red for a red theme, or something else for a different theme. For example, just add

\colorlet{awesome}{awesome-skyblue}

before \begin{document} in your main resume.tex file to use the skyblue theme:

Here's what it looks like with \colorlet{awesome}{purple} (the colour purple is not defined by awesome-cv, but is loaded as one of the default colours with xcolor):

Here's what it looks like with 60% orange (\colorlet{awesome}{orange!60}):

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] change the color of the frame

You can modify the colours like this:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Antibes}

\setbeamercolor{palette primary}{bg=red!80!black}
\setbeamercolor{palette secondary}{bg=red!70!black}
\setbeamercolor{palette tertiary}{bg=red!60!black}
\setbeamercolor{palette quaternary}{bg=red!50!black}

\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=gray!50!white}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
        \frametitle{test}
        test
    \end{frame}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Why can’t I change text color but I can still change the color of font awesome icons

Font coloring

The class friggery-cv.cls sets the Color attribute to the font:

\colorlet{textcolor}{gray}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Color=textcolor]{Helvetica Neue Light}

Then the color is part of the font and cannot be changed from the outside. This is shown by the following example. \textcolor{red} is working as the red \fbox shows, but the font remains blue:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Color=blue]{FreeSans}

\begin{document}
  Hello \textcolor{red}{\fbox{World}}
\end{document}

Workarounds

A new font without the feature Color can be defined. Then \textcolor applies to the colorless font.

The following example changes the Color attribute of the current font:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Color=blue]{FreeSans}

\begin{document}
  Hello {\addfontfeature{Color=red}World}
\end{document}

Link customization

Blue underlined links, see hyperref's README, section "Link border style".

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  allbordercolors=blue,
  pdfborderstyle={/S/U/W 1},
}

\begin{document}
  \tableofcontents
  \section{Test section}
  \label{sec:test}
  A reference to \hyperref[sec:test]{this section}.

  This example can be found in
  \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/183340/16967}{this answer}.

  URL of the question:
  \url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/183170/16967}
\end{document}