User blog:Taritsukii/How does the color code system work on the Free!Wiki?

Hi everyone,

I know that at this moment we are currently working on a lot of housecleaning here on the wiki, but I just wanted to bring this question up because I'd like to somehow implement a similar feature/code on another wiki I'm currently editing. Previously, I was inserting hexadecimal/6-digit colour codes into various pages to manually color text,infoboxes,etc. but it was very tedious to do. That's when I remembered that the Free!Wiki had a color code system that worked by writing a specific character's name into the code:

"＜ｆｏｎｔ　ｃｏｌｏｒ＝｛｛ＣｈａｒａｃｔｅｒＣｏｌｏｒ|(Character)｝｝＞(Text)＜／ｆｏｎｔ＞"

What I'd specifically like to know is how writing "CharacterColor" - followed by the character's name - gives the text the matching color of said character. I've tried other methods of color coding before, such as the much suggested Wiki Markup Method, but I dislike it because I still need to write the hexadecimal codes in order to use them and keeping a list of such codes is messy and inconvenient.

I am aware that it was originally OOQuietSnowOo who created the Color Code but I still want to ask in case any of you knew anything or could explain how it works to me.

Tari❀