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Standard link colors, in Vector 2022 and other skins Link color Type Vector 2022 Other skins Color code Color Color code Color blue link (Vector 2022) blue link (other skins) Link to a Wikipedia page that currently exists, but you never visited #3366CC = rgb(51,102,204) #0645AD = rgb(6,69,173) purple link (Vector 2022) indigo link (other skins)
Links should clearly be identifiable as links to readers. Refrain from implementing coloured links that may impede user ability to distinguish links from regular text, or colour links for purely aesthetic reasons. See the guides to editing articles for accessibility at contrast, accessibility and navbox colors.
This template takes three parameters: the color of the link, the article being linked to, and optional text to display as a piped link. {{colored link|purple|Page name to link|Alternative text}} → Alternative text. Use noinvert = yes to preserve the link color in dark mode:
Once you have entered that code, the external link should look like this: Note that if someone is using a custom skin that specifies different link colors, for example, green for internal links, and purple for "redlinks," a link formatted with this code will still look blue, and not match other links in appearance, to that user.
On Wikipedia, every link is blue. Therefore, everything that is not blue is not a link. It is very confusing for the user, so please do not change the color of the links (and same goes for text: text is black). Each kind of content has a specific color. New colors should only be used to indicate a new kind of interactive content.
blue text = link to existing page; red text = link to not existing page (only occurs for "discussion") black bold text (where a link would be fitting) = self link; Thus overriding a link color, especially to red, is confusing and should be avoided. Be careful with colors, and especially contrast:
@Dthomsen8: The redirect message you mentioned at Wikipedia:Help desk#Color coded text is only shown at the redirect Liberty bell with lower case 'b'. Help:Link color is about the default colors seen by logged out users and logged in users who haven't changed settings. The default colors for MonoBook are similar to Vector.
This page explains how to make the wikilink, interwiki link, or external web link (as hyperlinks) connections on Wikipedia, which gives readers one-click access to other Wikipedia pages, other Wikimedia projects, and external websites.