[Tex/LaTex] Different link colors for citeauthor and cite commands

colorhyperref

This question is apparently the same as this one, where the author did not follow up by providing a working example.

I would like to make the color of \citeauthor links to be black and the color of \cite to be blue. In the example that follows, both the author and the number citation are colored blue, and there is apparently not a citeauthorcolor keyword for hyperref. How can I produce different colors?

main.tex

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks=true, citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

\begin{document}

The work by \citeauthor{myref} was a fancy read~\cite{myref}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{main}

\end{document}

main.bib

@article{myref,
    title = {Fancy title},
    journal = {Journal of Fancy Publications},
    author = {Jane Dee and John Doe},
    year = {2017},
    pages = {293--311},
}

Compile: pdflatex main; bibtex main; pdflatex main; pdflatex main;

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Here is a "hack":

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[colorlinks=true, citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\let\oldciteauthor=\citeauthor
\def\citeauthor#1{\hypersetup{citecolor=blue}\oldciteauthor{#1}}
\let\oldcite=\cite
\def\cite#1{\hypersetup{citecolor=red}\oldcite{#1}}
\begin{filecontents}{main.bib}
@article{myref,
    title = {Fancy title},
    journal = {Journal of Fancy Publications},
    author = {Jane Dee and John Doe},
    year = {2017},
    pages = {293--311},
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

The work by \citeauthor{myref} was a fancy read~\cite{myref}.

\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\bibliography{main}

\end{document}

Output:

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That is because moderncv.cls sets pdfborder to 0 0 0 at the beginning of the document; here's the relevant code:

\AtEndPreamble{
  \@ifpackageloaded{CJK}
    {\RequirePackage[CJKbookmarks]{hyperref}}
    {\RequirePackage[pdftex]{hyperref}}
  \AtBeginDocument{
    \hypersetup{
      breaklinks,
      baseurl       = http://,
      pdfborder     = 0 0 0,
      pdfpagemode   = UseNone,% do not show thumbnails or bookmarks on opening
%      pdfstartview  = FitH,
      pdfstartpage  = 1,
      pdfcreator    = \LaTeX{} with `moderncv' package,
      pdfproducer   = \LaTeX{},
      bookmarksopen = true,
      pdfauthor     = \@firstname~\@familyname,
      pdftitle      = \@title,
      pdfsubject    = \@firstname~\@familyname,
      pdfkeywords   = \@firstname~\@familyname{} curriculum vit\ae{}}}
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}

EDIT: now I understand the request a little bit better (I hope); initially I thought that all the urls should have a colored border and I proposed some solution, now I see that it's just about some urls being colored. Taking this into account, I offer another solution:

I defined a new command \Colorhref with one optional argument (the color for the urls, default=cyan) and two mandatory arguments that will be passed to the standard \href command (\Colorhref also takes care of the change in font size). In your document you can use \Colorhref if you want your url with color and \href otherwise. Use the standard moderncv class:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvtheme[blue]{casual}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\firstname{Adam}
\familyname{Matan}
\email{adam@matan.name}
\homepage{www.matan.name}

\newcommand\Colorhref[3][cyan]{\href{#2}{\small\color{#1}#3}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Professional network}

\cvline{Linkedin.com}        {\Colorhref{http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamatan}             {Adam Matan}   - Professional profile and links.    }
\cvline{Stackoverflow.com}   {\small\href{http://stackoverflow.com/users/51197/adam-matan} {Adam Matan}   - My software questions and answers. } 
\cvline{twitter.com}         {\Colorhref[red]{http://twitter.com/justnoticed}{@justnoticed} - My tech tweets.}

\end{document}

Here's the result of the compilation of the above example code:

[Tex/LaTex] How to get different colors for math and for text

A quick way is using \everymath, \everydisplay and the everysel package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{everysel}
\EverySelectfont{\color{red}}
\everymath{\color{black}}
\everydisplay{\color{black}}
\begin{document}
text $x=0$
\[ \text{Text in math, }y= 1 \]
\end{document}

color in text and math

However, with more complicated amsmath environments such as align there could could be problems with \everydisplay, see: Modifying \everydisplay causes the align environment to stop working. If you would like to go this way, perhaps omit \everydisplay as align uses inline math internally, and redefine basic displayed math otherwise for using the desired color.

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