Changing font color in chapter titles and glossary heading

[Tim Kozusko]

Hello, I am using Tufte LaTeX for a couple projects, and love the format. However, I would like to change the color of the text for chapter titles and the glossary heading to spice the pages up a bit. I thought I was getting to understand LaTeX but using \titleformat*{\chapter}{\color{nicered}} in the preamble throws all manner of errors if the Table of Contents is active. Obviously I'm doing it wrong. What is the best way to accomplish this?
Thanks for your time,
Tim

[Dan T. Abell]

Hello, Tim:

I could go on at length about Tufte's choice of color (or lack
thereof) and about why you might wish to avoid "spicing up the
titles" and instead use color to focus the reader's attention
on more significant content. But I won't ... :-|

I can reproduce your problem, but I'm not sure what's going
on here. The documentation for the titlesec/titletoc packages
suggests that your \titleformat* command should work.

Kevin will likely comment here, but you might consider using
the full (i.e., unstarred) \titleformat command. For example,
something along the lines of ...

\newcommand{\chapterlabel}{\textcolor{gray}{\thechapter}}%
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\begin{fullwidth}\raggedright}% format applied to label+text
{\Huge\chapterlabel}% label
{-2\baselineskip}% separation between label and title body
{\vspace{2\baselineskip}\vspace{1ex}\huge\color{nicered}}% before the title body
[\end{fullwidth}\vspace{1ex}]% after the title body

Cheers,
-Dan

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[Tim Kozusko]

Hi Dan,
Thanks very much for your reply - it works like a charm; I appreciate your help.  I'm glad to see it wasn't something completely obvious I was doing wrong. I've reached a point where I probably need to come to grips with the nuts and bolts of how this program works - or just stick to defaults. I do find I'm learning from reading through the questions and  wanders here, but code doesn't come naturally to me - I'm a much better ecologist than I am a programmer.

Your point about the color is well taken. Black chapter headings are good enough for Tufte, they probably should be good enough for me. The "nice red" (really more of a almost pastel-brick color) was to make the title stand out against the aerial photo on the cover, and I got attached to it.

[Tim Kozusko]

wanders = answers (I type like an ecologist too)

[David Garbutt]

Hmm  indeed - seems like an holistic answer!

Sent from my iPhone 4

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[Dan T. Abell]

On 8 Oct 2012, at 07:08, Tim Kozusko wrote:

> Your point about the color is well taken. Black chapter headings are good enough for Tufte, they probably should be good enough for me. The "nice red" (really more of a almost pastel-brick color) was to make the title stand out against the aerial photo on the cover, and I got attached to it.

Red on the cover ... to make the title stand out from a
photo ... and not a neon, in-your-face red ... I say go
for it!

-Dan