How to Change the Color of a Font in Google Docs

Step 1: Sign into your Google Account

As an initial step, navigate to docs.google.com. If you are not signed in using your Gmail account, then log in to your Gmail account first. Refer to this for how to do Google Sign-in. Once you are signed in, you should see the screen below:

Step 2: Open the document

Open a new Blank Document or existing document from the list of recent documents. For this article, we will be creating a new Blank document. Click on the “+” just above “Blank document”, as highlighted in the image below.

Now, you should be able to see a new Blank document created. It will look like the one shown in the image below.

Now, write some text inside this blank document so that we can change its color in the next step.

Step 3: Select the text that is in the wrong color

As in the image below, select the text whose color has to be changed. If you want to select all the text in the entire document, press Ctrl + A on the keyboard. Now press the option as shown in the below image to change the text color.

Step 4: Change the Text color using Formatting Options

• Click on the text color option in the toolbar

In the toolbar at the top, click on the “Text Color” option.

• Select the desired color from the color palette

You can see a lot of options for text colors. Choose the colour you want to from this list.

Let’s colour the selected/highlighted text with “Red”. Click on the Red colour from color palette.

• Choose custom colors from the palette

Similar you can also apply any custom color to your selected text. To apply custom color, open the color palette and select “Custom” and choose the color. You can also give RBG or Hex values to apply your custom color.

Now once you applied your custom color, click “OK”. Now, your selected text will appear in that color.

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