today i'm going to teach you how to make a custom color text in tumblr, all it involves is knowing how html works.
my favorite color, truly favorite color, is not represented in the tumblr color set, so i have to go and make it myself whenever i want to use it.
first, i will type whatever text i wanna make the color, let's see.... i'll make "flurty is cool" into whatever color i want. not that one, but this one V
woah it is now my favorite color.
if you click on this icon here, you'll surprise the post.
the post had no idea you were going to look at its details like that. just made it nervous. now this little box will open up. click here.
ok cool, you now have three options to choose. click HTML
woah what the fuck happened to my post. basically, you just opened up the post to look at its source code. it looks like i'm looking into the guts of a cute bot
well you are looking at the very source code of a very cute post. now some things won't show on here like polls, which are a server side coded thing that tumblr won't let you edit, but you can edit most other things. can't have you getting too crazy.
find the line that you want to make a pretty color, for instance, i see it here. make sure to click on every line as you scroll by, you wouldn't understand why this matters. but it matters to the post.
ok cool, now how do we make this line into MY FAVORITE COLOR?
very simple, first, you must understand how a computer understands what color text or anything should be. we need to get it instructions, in the form of hexadecimal.
open up any color picker website, find your favorite color, and look for its hexadecimal id.
i like to use google's. google search "color picker" and use its tool to pick your favorite color, ok? don't look at the stupid ai shit they're forcing in our faces, that bot ain't real. the one you have your hands in right now is real. pay attention to your post, find the color that makes you happiest.
it will give you the hexadecimal id for it. copy that thing and go back to the guts of that hot post you are playing with.
this is where we gotta take off the big person gloves and we gotta put our own code into this post. first, look into the eyes of the post you are about to stick your code in, make sure it wants this to happen, and always verbally ask, "can i?" or "may i?" if your smart with the language like i am.
then, once you have the post's permission, open up the first <p></p> tags of the line you want to make beautiful, and inside the tags, but in the tag itself, insert the following:
<span style="color: #HEXHEX">...</span>
and replace the HEXHEX with your HEX code!
It should look something like this...
NOTE: If you open a tag, make sure you close a tag. You can close a tag by typing a / in the tag itself.
<p>...</p> <span>...</span>
Now when you look at the post, you should have your favorite color on your post!!!!
don't forget the after care. after inserting your code into the post, make sure to thank it and give it some love by pressing the heart icon. reblog it if you truly care about it. i know the post will be thinking about this for a long time.
thank you for attending my ted talk. i understand if you have to block me after reading this post. send me asks of the colors you put in your posts.
