[Tex/LaTex] How to draw a square of 1cm in LaTeX filled with color

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How to draw a square of 1cm in LaTeX filled with colour? I found mdframed and framebox does this, but there need to write text inside it. I just need to draw a box.

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Use the simple \rule command:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand\crule[3][black]{\textcolor{#1}{\rule{#2}{#3}}}
\begin{document}

\crule{1cm}{1cm} \crule[blue]{1cm}{1cm} \crule[red!50!white!100]{1cm}{1cm}  

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Color of square cell in array

If you're not set on the array approach and would be okay with explicitly specifying the size of the squares, you could use TikZ for this. Based on the answer to the question TikZ matrix as a replacement for tabular, you could define a style that adjusts a TikZ matrix to have all the cells join each other and have identical heights and widths:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{matrix}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}

\tikzset{square matrix/.style={
    matrix of nodes,
    column sep=-\pgflinewidth, row sep=-\pgflinewidth,
    nodes={draw,
      minimum height=#1,
      anchor=center,
      text width=#1,
      align=center,
      inner sep=0pt
    },
  },
  square matrix/.default=1.2cm
}

\matrix[square matrix]
{
16 & 3 & 2 & 13 \\
5 & 10 &|[fill=yellow]| 11 & 8 \\
9 & 6 + 2 & 7 & 12 \\
4 & 15 & 14 & 1 \\
};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

tikz matrix with square elements

To adjust the size of the elements, use square matrix=<length>. To fill elements with different colours, use |[fill=<colour>]| in the cell you want to adjust.

[Tex/LaTex] How to specify a fill color in RGB format in a node in tikzpicture

In answer to your first question - mixing colours in (say) RGB format - you could use the notation similar to that specified in the xcolor package documentation, since TikZ recognizes this. For example, mixing/sharing proportions of black green is obtained using

\node[...,fill=black,...]
\node[...,fill=black!60!green,...]
\node[...,fill=black!30!green,...]
\node[...,fill=green,...]

and displays

Nodes with different colour fills (sharing between black and green)

Or, if you're interested in mixing certain quantities of RGB colours, you can use a part-wise mix as follows:

\node[...,fill={rgb:red,4;green,2;yellow,1},...]
\node[...,fill={rgb:red,1;green,2;blue,5},...]
\node[...,fill={rgb:orange,1;yellow,2;pink,5},...]
\node[...,fill={rgb:black,1;white,2},...]

which outputs

Part-wise mix of colours

For answering your second question - dealing with boxes - you can use the fancybox package or even PStricks. Here is an example using the latter:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(5,5)
  \psset{fillstyle=solid,framearc=.3}
  \psframebox[fillcolor=red]{\textcolor{white}{TEST}}
  \psframebox[fillcolor=green!50!red]{\textcolor{white}{TEST}}
  \psframebox[fillcolor=black!50]{\textcolor{white}{TEST}}
  \psframebox[fillcolor={rgb:red,1;green,2;blue,3}]{\textcolor{white}{TEST}}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}

PStricks rounded/coloured boxes

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