Using colour to make text stand out

We have two ways we like to make a piece of writing stand out.

The first way is to put a coloured box behind the text, just like we've done in the navigation bar above - we've used a yellow box so you always know which section of the toolkit you're in.

The second way is to use one of our secondary colours for the text itself. You should be very careful about using colours for both the writing and the background though, as this may make the writing hard to read.

As you can see below, red writing against a grey background is easy to read, but green writing against a yellow background is very hard.

If you want to put a colour behind writing, then you should refer to the colour type chart.