User talk:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color

BACKED UP

Original page (Template:Victoria Livery color) was nomination for deletion on 30 May 2024. Moved contents here as a back up if they are needed in the future. --ThylacineHunter (talk) 03:25, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

How can I also define text colours

For use in a table, need to be able to define the colour of background and colour of text. Trainsofvictoria (talk) 09:25, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

The template currently does nothing but produce the color code. It doesn't do any genuine formatting of its own. You could, in the same way in which you define the color codes for the backgrounds, also define color codes for the text, e.g. like this:

| MetroText = FFFFFF

Then you can use it as follows:

{| class="wikitable"
!Colour scheme !!Background hexadecimal !!Text hexadecimal !! !!
|-
|style="background: #{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Metro}}; color: #{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|MetroText}}" | Metro
|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Metro}}
|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|MetroText}}
| <nowiki>#{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Metro}}</nowiki>
| <nowiki>#{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|MetroText}}</nowiki>
|}

That will give:

Colour scheme	Background hexadecimal	Text hexadecimal
Metro	style="background: #1E90FF; color: #000000"	FFFFFF	#{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Metro}}	{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|MetroText}}

Otherwise you'd have to re-do the template in its entirety to make it actually produce the formatting instead of just the codes. Huon (talk) 12:14, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

How would I go about redoing the template? (I originally just copied it from one the did train line colours)

I also want to have different text in each cell (eg: "ACN1" & "BN2" in vl1 style, then another row "ACN1" in vl2 and "BN2" in vlp1)

Trainsofvictoria (talk) 03:08, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

It would probably be easier to start over from scratch than to try and modify this template. This template is meant to produce a color code as output - it turns the parameter "VR Maroon" into "990000". That's all. If you want it to fully format text, you'd want to have the output be the full style="background: #990000; color: yellow" or something like that, depending on how, exactly, the template is meant to be used. Its use will then be different from that of whatever template it's based on, and it may not work in all the contexts where the other template works (e.g. not in infoboxes, I'd expect). Please also note that some color combinations are very difficult to read (black on dark brown?), and it might be even worse for people with color blindness issues. See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Color. Huon (talk) 21:47, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

I don't understand what you mean by "different text in each cell"; the template currently doesn't produce or affect text at all. If you want different background and text colors in different parts of one cell, the easiest way would likely be to create a sub-table with independently colored cells. If you want to change only text color, that may be easier: Help:Using colours explains how you can override text color. Huon (talk) 21:47, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Liveries examples

For the purposes of tables below, these approximations of liveries have been used:

Colour scheme	Background hexadecimal	Text hexadecimal		Use
VR Maroon	#990000	#FFFF00		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VR Maroon}} |
VR Austerity	#990000	#000000		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VR Austerity}} |
VR Red	#DF0010	#000000		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VR Red}} |
VR Red with yellow stripe	#DF0010	#FFFF00		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VR Red Yellow}} |
VR Blue & Gold	#002466	#FFFF00	Royal blue with gold stripe	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VR Blue Gold}} |
VicRail Teacup	#FFA500	#808080		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VicRail Teacup}} |
V/Line orange	#FFA500	#000000	All orange	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VLine Orange}} |
V/Line Mk I	#FFA500	#FFFFFF	Tangerine with silver stripe	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VL1}} |
V/Line Mk II	#FFA500	#008000	Tangerine, with white & green stripe	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VL2}} |
V/Line VIP	#A9A9A9	#008000	Grey & off white with narrow orange & green stripe	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VLine VIP}} |
V/Line with WCR logo	#FFA500	#0066CC		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VLine WCR}} |
V/Line Passenger Mk I	#DF0010	#FFFFFF	Crimson with a white line along the windows, and blue roof with white trim. Logo with blue slash no underline	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VLP1}} |
V/Line Passenger Mk II	#DF0010	#000099	Crimson with a white line along the windows, and blue roof with white trim. Logo with blue slash and underline	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VPL2}} |
V/Line Passenger Mk III	#A9A9A9	#000000	Grey with red, white & purple	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VLP3}} |
PTV Purple	#8F1A95	#FFFFFF	Light grey and purple with dark grey windows	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|PTV Purple}} |
Overland	#824F4C	#C0C0C0	Regal red & bare steel	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Overland}} |
West Coast Railway MkI	#0066CC	#FFFF00		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|WCR1}} |
West Coast Railway MkII	#0066CC	#FFFFFF		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|WCR2}} |
Metro Trains Melbourne	#1E90FF	#000000		|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|Metro}} |
Vintage Rail Travel Mk I	#800000	#FFFFFF	707 - Maroon, with a white stripe	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VRT1}} |
Vintage Rail Travel Mk II	#800000	#A9A9A9	707 - Maroon, with a black line along the windows, and white trim	|{{User:ThylacineHunter/Victoria Livery color|VRT2}} |

Trainsofvictoria (talk) 09:32, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Uses for this template

It could be used in the following places:

• E sets
• H sets
• K sets
• N sets
• Z sets

Trainsofvictoria (talk) 08:49, 11 July 2019 (UTC)