Chimera Built-in Colors

Chimera includes many named colors:

• all 60 [top 20]
• 109 element colors

Additional colors can be created and named with the command colordef, or created interactively and saved to a palette with the Color Editor.

Color names are used in coloring commands (color, modelcolor, rangecolor, etc.) and can be entered directly into the Color Editor.

In built-in color names, gray and grey can be used interchangeably.

These are the same as the Jmol element colors. Mousing over an entry shows the corresponding Tk color code. The element colors are used in coloring by element or by heteroatom (with unknowns colored magenta), but the element symbols can also be used in commands just like any other color names: [Top 20] [All 60]

Twenty frequently used colors are available under Actions... Color in the menu. [All 60] [Element Colors]

Sixty named colors are available in the Color Actions dialog. These are a subset of X colors, except that orange and medium blue are as defined in the HTML colors list. [Top 20] [Element Colors]