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Color

Color

If you are a developer making custom themes and components, the WVU Design System offers a number color utilities to style your content.

These utilities are generated by Bootstrap when we override Bootstrap’s color variables. They work for buttons btn-{color}, backgrounds bg-{color}, and border colors border-{color). Where {color can be one of the following:

Color Suffixes

Primary Colors

wvu-blue
#002855

wvu-gold
#EAAA00

Secondary Colors

wvu-star-city-blue
#9DDAE6

wvu-safety-blue
#0062A3

wvu-canary
#F7DD63

wvu-sunset
#F58672

wvu-woodburn
#8d4638

wvu-hemlock
#6A724F

wvu-wild-flour
#F2E6C2

wvu-buckskin
#B3A169

wvu-old-gold
#7F6310

Neutral Colors

wvu-rattler-gray
#554741

wvu-not-quite-white
#F7F7F7

wvu-coopers-gray
#BEB7B3

wvu-seneca-gray
#F58672

wvu-coal
#181f23

Accessible Color Combinations for Text

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-blue

Large Text

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bg-wvu-gold

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-coal

Large Text

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bg-wvu-star-city-blue

Large Text

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bg-wvu-safety-blue

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bg-wvu-canary

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-old-gold

Large Text

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bg-wvu-sunset

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-not-quite-white

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-coopers-gray

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-rattler-gray

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-seneca-gray

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-wild-flour

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-buckskin

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-woodburn

Large Text

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Normal Text

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bg-wvu-hemlock