Screenshot of VSCode split-screen editor of a Markdown file containing a long list of colors. The left pane shows the MD source code, the right pane the rendered preview, incl. color swatches (as background colors)

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   Karsten Schmidt (toxi@mastodon.thi.ng)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 07:01:03 JST Karsten Schmidt

   VERY disappointed in GitHub refusing to support the LaTeX `\colorbox` (outright banned) or `\textcolor` macros (seemingly only very limited support) or any CSS solution to allow one to create colored text in Markdown files... I was hoping to create color swatches as shown in the attached preview (in VSCode), but just none of this works on GitHub...

   (And yes, I understand there're some potential accessibility issues, but there're more social solutions to address these than an outright technical ban of colored text! It's 2024!)

   Now, all user can get is a boring list of color names with their hex values sans pre-visualization... 😤😭

   https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/packages/meta-css#colors

   #GitHub #Markdown #LaTeX #Colors