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

colorfontawesomelinks

I have what it seems a very simple question, but I still cannot solve it, and I haven't been able to reproduce the problem outside Friggeri's CV template (sorry for that).

The whole thing is trying to have a default text color that still allows me to change the color of specific words/phrases.

I am using Friggeri's CV template with the same friggeri-cv.cls (I have only changed all the Helvetica fonts to Arial and added backend=biber to the \RequirePackage{biblatex} line).

This is a MWE, where you can see text doesn't change color, but the flag does. Isn't font awesome considered text?

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[]{friggeri-cv}
\listfiles
\addbibresource{bibliography.bib}

\usepackage{fontawesome}
\newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome}

\begin{document}
\header{name}{surname}
       {occupation}

% In the aside, each new line forces a line break
\begin{aside}
  \section{sec}
    aaa
    bbb
\end{aside}


\section{sec}
\begin{entrylist}
  \entry
    {2014}
    {some text here}
    {more here}
    {and more text

    and \textcolor{red}{text in color}

    and an icon \textcolor{red}{\faFlag}

    and even a \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{link}
    }
\end{entrylist}


\end{document}

Now, I know there is this line in the .cls file

 \colorlet{textcolor}{gray}

that controls default text color, but I still want the default text color to be like that, why doesn't \textcolor{red} override it?

I only get colored text when I comment that line…

This brings me to the problem of customizing links… I use the following line in the .cls file (but it doesn't work if I use it in the .tex file) to remove the box around links:

 \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

But can I make all links be blue and underlined, for example? The option urlcolor=blue in the above command doesn't seem to do anything…

EDIT:

I get the following with the MWE above:

this

A big big plus would be to get rid of the underfull hbox warning too, if possible!

Many thanks

EDIT 2:

At the end of the log file, \listfiles lists the following:

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 ***********

NEW EDIT:

I have tried to reproduce the error without using Friggeri's template, but with no success, the following line does not have the desired effect:
\colorlet{textcolor}{blue}
But it has to be done that way, cause I don't want to touch Friggeri's template much… anybody has any idea?

This is the MWE

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass{article}
\listfiles
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\newfontfamily{\FA}{FontAwesome}

\colorlet{textcolor}{blue}

\begin{document}
and more text

and \textcolor{red}{text in color}

and an icon \textcolor{red}{\faFlag}

and even a \href{http://tex.stackexchange.com/}{link}

\end{document}

Best Answer

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}

Result

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}

    Result

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}

Result

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