I like pretty colors. When I see pretty colors in your build threads, I get happy.
Please do not use colors that are hard to read, though. There are other things which will make me go blind, I don’t need the help.
Instead, I thought I would make a nice little guide so we can all make guides with pretty colors and not cause each-other to go blind. 
These are just how I like to use them, obviously you can use whatever shade you like for what you want, but this should also serve as a nice repository for colors that look nice on the particular background of these forums.
I’ll list what I like to use the code for, and then the tags I use to make it. Replace the space between the tags with the text you want to make pretty, ok?
Item Rarities
Common [color=gray] [/color]
Uncommon [color=greenyellow] [/color]
Rare [color=steelblue] [/color]
Very Rare [color=mediumorchid] [/color]
E-Tech [color=magenta] [/color]
Legendary [color=orange] [/color]
Pearlescent [color=turquoise] [/color]
Glitch (Seraph in BL2) [color=lightpink] [/color]
Elements
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Non-Elemental [color=beige] [/color]
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:no_entry_sign:
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Explosive [color=yellow] [/color]
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:boom:
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Fire [color=darkorange] [/color]
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:fire:
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Corrosive [color=yellowgreen] [/color]
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Shock [color=dodgerblue] [/color]
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:zap:
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Slag [color=mediumpurple][/color]
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Cryo [color=darkturquoise] [/color]
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:snowflake:
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Skill Formatting
Green Tree (light) [color=lightgreen] [/color]
Green Tree (dark) [color=limegreen] [/color]
Blue Tree (light) [color=skyblue] [/color]
Blue Tree (dark) [color=deepskyblue] [/color]
Red Tree (light) [color=lightcoral] [/color]
Red Tree (dark) [color=indianred] [/color]
5/5 Skill Points [color=lime] [/color]
1/5 Skill Points [color=chocolate] [/color]
6/5 Skill Points [color=aqua] [/color]
Gear Text
Red Text [color=#f44] [/color]
Luneshine [color=paleturquoise] [/color]
Key Word [color=wheat] [/color]
Vacuum [color=peru] [/color]
Atmosphere [color=lightskyblue] [/color]
Error Code [color=darkseagreen] [/color]
These are just the colors that I like. There are a lot more HTML color names that work, and you can also use Hexadecimal color codes instead of names, such as “#FFFFFF” for white.
http://html-color-codes.info/ for Hex codes
http://html-color-codes.info/color-names/ for HTML color names.
Other formatting
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Italicized Text
*Italicized Text*
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Bold Text
**Bold Text**
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Bold and Italicized Text
***Bold and Italicized Text***
- Underlined Text
- <u>Underlined Text</u>
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Spoiler Text
- [spoiler]Spoiler Text[/spoiler]
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Unicode characters.
- ☣ Unicode characters.
- Non-breaking space. Does not cause a line-break, is not trimmed by the forum back-end, which normally trims extra spaces that aren’t part of formatting code. This can also be used to create indentation without creating a list.
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Link Text
[Link Text](http://www.google.com)
- Images are like Links, but preceded by ! The text in the is the alt-text, but it can be empty.
- Simply paste a Youtube link in an otherwise empty line, with an non-list line above it to embed a video
- 3 dashes (—) in an otherwise empty line, with an empty line above it makes a horizontal divider. If the line above your divider contains text that doesn’t belong to a list and has an empty line above it, it will make a Heading instead.
Headings
Headings are an easy way to separate your different sections. They make the text big and bold. There are two ways to create a heading. The simple version is to add a single dash below your heading text. If you want a horizontal divider, it needs its own line.
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Heading
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Gives you:
For multi-level headings (equivalent to html h1, h2, h3, etc.) use one or more # marks followed by a space and then your heading text:
Gives you:
Unordered Lists
- A dash followed by a space, and then some text will start a list, but only if there is an empty line or a Heading above it.
* Asterisks work too. If the dash or asterisk is preceded by 2 spaces, the list item will be nested.
- Four spaces, and it will be two levels in.
Lines without dots will be indented to the previous list-item.
Lists must be followed by an empty line or a Heading to end.
Like so.
- A dash followed by a space, and then some text will start a list, but only if there is an empty line or a Heading above it.
- Asterisks work too. If the dash or asterisk is preceded by a space, the list item will be nested.
- Four spaces, and it will be 2 levels in.
Lines without dots will be indented to the previous list-item.
Lists must be followed by an empty line or a Heading to end.
- Four spaces, and it will be 2 levels in.
- Asterisks work too. If the dash or asterisk is preceded by a space, the list item will be nested.
Like so.
Ordered Lists
1. Lists can also be numbered, but not if previous list-items within the same section are not numbered.
- Sub-items can be unordered For some reason sub-items of numbered lists need an extra space preceding them (3 in this case).
1. You can start numbering partway through, which is amusing.
- And also stop numbering partway through, which is also amusing.
99. If you start a numbered list, you must use numbers to continue it, but they don’t need to be correct.
1. Since this is a different sub-list, it can be numbered even though the last sub-list at this level wasn’t. I need an additional preceding space (now 4) since the number above was 2 digits.
1. Some markdown sites will use roman numerals for nested ordered lists… but not here. By the way, 7 preceding spaces here.
- Lists can also be numbered.
- Sub-items can be unordered. For some reason sub-items of numbered lists need an extra space preceding them (3 in this case).
- You can start numbering partway through, which is amusing.
- And also stop numbering partway through, which is also amusing.
- If you start a numbered list, you must use numbers to continue it, but they don’t need to be correct.
- Since this is a different sub-list, it can be numbered even though the last sub-list at this level wasn’t. I need preceding another space (now 4) since the number above was 2 digits.
- Some markdown sites will use roman numerals for nested ordered lists… but not here. By the way, 7 preceding spaces here.
- Since this is a different sub-list, it can be numbered even though the last sub-list at this level wasn’t. I need preceding another space (now 4) since the number above was 2 digits.
This site also has a lot of info on formatting in Markdown, which is the name of the code used by this forum:
:star: that derch has been using.
is also one I might keep to show melee gear on top gear