Chimera Built-in Colors

Chimera includes many named colors:

• 60 in the menu [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 several 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 like any other color names. [Colors in the Menu]

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

Sixty named colors are available under Actions... Color... all colors in the menu. 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]