You can change an element's color by setting any of the color assignment keywords to a named color. A named color is specified in a design script using a string data type. A string is a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes. You can use either single or double quotes, but the opening and closing quote must be the same type.

Syntax:

color = "string"

boundary_color = "string"

fill_color = "string"

When you specify a named color in a design script, the printing system searches for the specified color string from one of the delivered color books or from the built-in color table. The built-in color table contains 67 named colors with their corresponding RGB values and is shown in the table below.

The printing system supports the following format for specifying a color string from one of the delivered color books: "<color book name>:<color name>".

Examples:

color = "RAL DESIGN:RAL 000 45 00"
boundary_color = "NCS - Natural Color System(R)(C):NCS
S 0300-N"

If you primarily use standard colors, the built-in color table may be adequate; otherwise, you can specify a color book name from any of the delivered color books ( RAL CLASSIC, RAL DESIGN, or NCS - Natural Color System(R)(C)).

For example, to change the color of elements in the master file to "black" and the color of elements in all reference files to a gray shade, you can write the following design script:

! 
! Change the color of all elements in the
! master file to black, and the reference
! files to a gray.
!
if (file eq 0) then
	 color = "black"
else
	color = "RAL DESIGN:RAL 000 45 00"
endif