COLOR

BASIC keyword
Keyword:	COLOR
Abbreviation:	CO Shift+L
Type:	Command
Token code:	UNK
Handling routine in BASIC ROM:	UNK
List of all BASIC keywords

Remark: This article describes the BASIC command COLOR in Commodore BASIC V3.5.

Type: Command
General Programming-Syntax: 
  COLOR <color source#>, <color #> ,[<luminance #>

COLOR is a BASIC 3.5 command that is used to change the color of the display.

Number	Source
0	background
1	foreground
2	multicolor 1
3	multicolor 2
4	border

Colors you can use are in the range 1-16 (Black, White...). As an option, you can include the luminance level 0-7, with 0 being lowest and 7 being highest. Luminance defaults to 7. Luminance lets you select from 8 levels of brightness for any color except black.

This results in a palette of 121 different color tones, given the fact that black always remains the same in all eight brightness levels.

The following colors can be assigned using the Color value parameter:

Color (Stufe 7)	Color (Stufe 4)	Color (Stufe 0)	Name	Value
			Black	1
			White	2
			Red	3
			Cyan	4
			Purple	5
			Green	6
			Blue	7
			Yellow	8
			Orange	9
			Brown	10
			YellowGreen	11
			Rosa	12
			BlueGreen	13
			Light Blue	14
			Zyklam	15
			Light Green	16

Parameter values outside the ranges described above are acknowledged with the error message ?ILLEGAL QUANTITY ERROR. If not two or three parameters are present, the error message ?SYNTAX ERROR will appear.

Examples

Sets the border to black:

COLOR 4,1

Sets the background to white:

COLOR 0,2

Sets the foreground to blue-green, with half intensity:

COLOR 1,13,4

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