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named_colors:

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This page is reference material which explains every setting and option for this section of an MPF yaml config file. See the instructions for config files for formatting and other details. See our guide to config file examples for more examples of real configs in action.

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The named_colors: section of your config is where you define color names that can be used for RGB lights throughout your machine code. Anywhere in lights: or light_player: where a color can be specified, named colors can be used.

Your named colors can be an array of R/G/B values or a hex string of hex values (which can also include a brightness percentage, like all hex color strings).

This is an example:

named_colors:
  custom_blue: [24, 65, 226]
  troll_green: 4a9b22
  troll_green_dark: 4a9b22%50
lights:
  troll_target:
    number: 10
    default_on_color: troll_green
  l_jackpot:
    number: 20
light_player:
  trolls_disabled:
    troll_target: troll_green_dark
  jackpot_lit:
    l_jackpot:
      color: custom_blue
      fade: 10

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