[Tex/LaTex] Color Options for Appearance of Links in Hyperref

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Extending this wonderfully useful post ("options for appearance of links in hyperref"), I am curious if you might list all the color options (or point me to the appropriate documentation) for linkcolor, citecolor, filecolor, and urlcolor when using the hyperref library?

For this, I see as examples black, gray, blue, green, magenta, and cyan.

I also see that linkbordercolor, citebordercolor and urlbordercolor (which control color options of the frame around links, citations, and borders when colorlinks = false) offer arbitrary color selection (see documentation details)

However I cannot seem to find any way to set arbitrary colors for linkcolor, citecolor, filecolor or urlcolor (e.g. gray50, {0 0 1} or something else).

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Once you load the xcolor package, you have access to all the color specifications this package allows; in particular, you can use the hundredths of predefined colors it provides, to the ! modifier for mixing colors, to the - for complements, etc.; using \definecolor{<name>}{<model>}{<specification>} you can build your own colors in the desired modes and then use <name> in the hyperref setup (please refer to the package documentation for further details).

A little example showing some of the possibilities:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\definecolor{mycolor}{HTML}{F7F8E0}
\definecolor{myorange}{RGB}{245,156,74}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=red
}

\begin{document}

\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=cyan!50
}
\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=ForestGreen% required dvipsnames optioon for xcolor
}
\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=myorange
}
\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=-myorange
}
\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\hypersetup{
  colorlinks=true,
  urlcolor=mycolor!75!black
}
\href{www.tex.stackexchange.com}{TeX.sx}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] options for appearance of links in hyperref

You can customise pretty much any thing in that regard, all the way to hiding all the links (no colours, no frames, just plain black text) with hidelinks.

if you use colorlinks=true you can set (defaults in []):

linkcolor [red]
anchorcolor [black]
citecolor [green]
filecolor [cyan]
menucolor [red]
runcolor [cyan - same as file color]
urlcolor [magenta]
allcolors -- use this if you want to set all links to the same color

if you want some of these not coloured, simply set them to . (e.g., citecolor=.), which will use the color of the text where the link appears.

if you use colorlinks=false and therefore want the frames around the links you have access to these settings:

citebordercolor [rgb 0 1 0]
filebordercolor [rgb 0 .5 .5]
linkbordercolor [rgb 1 0 0]
menubordercolor [rgb 1 0 0]
urlbordercolor [rgb 0 1 1]
runbordercolor [rgb 0 .7 .7]
allbordercolors

again if you want some of these to not appear, set them to white.

In your case, if you want the frames around links in citations but not on the table of content (and therefore not on other links such as to figures, tables or footnotes) I suggest you have a \hypersetup configuration with at least:

\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks = false,
    linkbordercolor = {white},
    <your other options...>,
}

[Tex/LaTex] Further customize color of hyperref links

For the question of changing the link colour of subsections in the table of contents, one can use the tocloft package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
     colorlinks   = true,
     citecolor    = gray
}

\usepackage{tocloft}

\renewcommand{\cftsubsecfont}{\normalfont\hypersetup{linkcolor=orange}}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecafterpnum}{\hypersetup{linkcolor=green}}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\maketitle
\hypersetup{linkcolor=green}
\tableofcontents
\hypersetup{linkcolor=red}
\listoffigures
\hypersetup{linkcolor=blue}

\section{Table of content's links should be green}
\label{s1}
All text, captions, and section headers after the list of figures
should be black. The citation links should be gray.
\subsection{Table of content's subsections links should be orange}
Internal links like this section link \ref{s1} 
or this figure link \ref{f1} should be blue.
\section{Making sure section titles turn back to green}
This should be green again in the ToC.

\begin{figure}[h]
\caption{List of figures links red}
\label{f1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

It requires a little fiddling to find which commands need to be changed to make the colour what is desired. More information on page 10 of the documentation. To keep the font the same, I had to find the standard definition, p. 30 of the documentation.

The tocloft package also deals with all sort of options to change the list of figures (and list of tables), meaning you may be able to set all your wishes in the preamble using this package.

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