colorist bundle: write you documents in a colorful way

New documentations are still being written. For now, only the core code is included in TeX Live 2025 and MiKTeX (old documentations have been removed from the distribution).

Introduction

colorist is a collection of styles and classes that helps you to typeset articles and books with a colorful design.

rg/pkg/hyperref), ifoddpage, iftex, imakeidx, lua-widow-control, indentfirst, marginnote, mathpazo, mathtools, newpx, nowidow, parskip, pgf, projlib, regexpatch, relsize, silence, tcolorbox, tikzpagenodes, titlesec, titletoc, wrapfig2, ulem.

It mainly consists of two parts.

• Main part:
  • colorist.sty : interface of the main style
    • colorist-fancy.sty : the style "fancy"
      • ... and more styles to come (currently on schedule: "plain", "classical", "modern", "simple", "elegant", "flow", "stream")
    • colorart.cls : class for typesetting articles
    • colorbook.cls : class for typesetting books

They can be used with any major TeX engine. Currently they have native
support to English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese
(European and Brazilian) and Spanish typesetting.

• Derivative part:
  • lebhart.cls : enhanced version of colorart
    • beaulivre.cls : enhanced version of colorbook

They are similar to the main classes, but have Unicode support, thus can
only be used with either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. Currently, they have native
support to Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German,
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian and Spanish
typesetting, and also use more beautiful fonts.

How to get these files

You can get the .sty and .cls files mentioned above by compiling colorist.ins:

latex colorist.ins

Features

Compared with usual document classes, it has the following features:

• Several carefully designed styles.
• Native multilingual support: Chinese (simplified and traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Russian and Spanish.

In particular, for simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese and Japanese, the fonts of the corresponding glyphs can be automatically switched.

• Ready-to-use theorem-type environments, with clever referencing supported.
• Support both the standard and the AMS writing fashion.
• ... and much more...

License

This work is released under the LaTeX Project Public License, v1.3c or later.