Template:Overcoloured

This article may overuse or misuse colour, making it hard to understand for colour-blind users. Please remove or fix instances of distracting or hard-to-read colours or remove coloured links that may impede users' ability to distinguish links from regular text, or links coloured for purely aesthetic reasons. See the guides to editing for accessibility of contrast and colour. (December 2025)

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If an article, file, template, category, module, or other page does not meet the guideline for the use of colours, add this to the top of the page:

{{overcoloured|date=December 2025}}

Alternatively, if the problem only affects one section of the page, add this to the top of the relevant section:

{{overcoloured|section|date=December 2025}}

If the page is written in United States English, add the |US=yes option to spell "colour" as "color" for WP:ENGVAR compliance. Calling the template as {{overcolored}} does this automatically.
This template takes the optional parameter |reason=, which can be used to explain what issues need to be addressed, e.g. |reason=The contrast of some of the colors used in this timeline is not high enough to be read easily by almost anyone.

Template:Overcoloured

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