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I have stumbled upon a weird feature in Skype - colored text:

Skype - colored text

How do I achieve this? Are there available any special tags?

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Found out on my own. You can use the standard HTML tag 'FONT' with the 'color' attribute, like this:

<font color="#hex-code-of-color">any text</font>

And to post it you have to hold Ctrl + Shift and click with the mouse the Send button. I've checked and there are available additional 'FONT' attribute 'size' and 4 more tags: 'U' [underline], 'I' [italic], 'B' [bold] and 'BLINK' [obvious]. The image on the screenshot above is made programmatically, on img4skype.com. Source.

UPD: Doesn't work since 5.8.0.154. Though, if you send the code from an older version, it will render properly in the new ones as well.

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  • This doesn't work. If it used to work on older versions of Skype, it no longer works with newer versions, at least not by default.
    – NiteCyper
    May 30, 2013 at 2:17
  • You have to downgrade to Skype 5.7 first :) Oct 31, 2014 at 16:47
  • Then it isn't a solution...
    – Tim
    Nov 23, 2014 at 8:42
  • It was at the time.
    – Alec Mev
    Nov 23, 2014 at 10:47
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An app called skype colors.exe, which you can find on the web, might seem shady but should work. You open it then type in Skype chat and choose the color you want on the bottom of the message bar.

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    Can you explain this program further?
    – oldmud0
    Dec 16, 2015 at 2:54

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