Skin FONT color basic Help Solved

[Rain_Seek3r]

HELLO rainmeter

I have a skin called "minimal" that I decided to change 2 thing in. Its a Time and day skin.
I figured out way way to change what i want but most of the time with i logg off, shutdown or even click refresh skin it changes to some weird colors and i have to keep on refreshing until the right one pops up and then go about the day.

here's what i have in the coding

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-------------------------------------METERS--------------------------------------------
 
[MeterHour]
MeasureName=MeasureHour
Meter=STRING
X=-20
Y=50
FontColor=yellow 12
FontSize=100
FontFace=Century Gothic
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=NORMAL
AntiAlias=1
 
[MeterMinute]
MeasureName=MeasureMinute
Meter=STRING
X=90
Y=50
FontColor=255 ,255 ,255
FontSize=100
FontFace=Century Gothic
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=Normal
AntiAlias=1
 
[MeterDate]
MeasureName=MeasureDate
Meter=STRING
X=265
Y=70
FontColor=yellow 11
FontSize=52
FontFace=Century Gothic
StringAlign=LEFT
StringStyle=Normal
AntiAlias=1

Has you can see the changes are just the 2 "yellow11 &12" font colors
Am I doing it wrong?? these yellow colors are what i want but i dont know what is the correct way to to it

Help appreciated as always

[wasky1]

hi there.

if you have a variable called yellow, then in your meter you would have:-

FontColor=#yellow#

if you dont have a variable called yellow, you would put

FontColor=255,240,22,255 (solid yellow)

The three numbers seperated with "," represent Red,Green,Blue,Opacity

hope this helps

[Rain_Seek3r]

^^^

how would one figure out that number system though?

I understand what they represent but how do you figure out the combination's ?

the 255,240,22,255 looks more brighter than "yellow12" is there anyway i can fix it?

Btw the 255,240,22,255 works when refreshing it doesn't change which is what i want

[wasky1]

peronaly i choose a color i like on paintshoppro and hover over so show code but you can also use hexadecimal codes or whatever theyre called and theres quite a few charts for reference on net eg
http://www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

heres a chart with red green blue values also
http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm

[Rain_Seek3r]

^^
I was playing around with some combination's in the numbers and got the yellow i wanted in the first one which is 235, 230, 15, 255 and 200, 225, 10, 255

small change but almost exactly what i wanted :0

Thanks for showing me how to change color fonts around in rainmeter

Learned something new YAY :ugeek: