Proc report colors are too bright- Are mild shades?

[Stalk]

I' m using the following colors but they are too bright. Are there any other mild shades for red, green and yellow to show on the report?

if diff_pct gt .9 then call define(_row_,'style','style=[background=lightgreen]');
if .6 le diff_pct le .9 then call define(_row_,'style','style=[background=yellow]');
else if diff_pct lt .6 then call define(_row_,'style','style=[background=lightred]');
 

[Reeza · Accepted solution]

You can specify any colour you'd like, I usually use colorbrewer to get my colour schemes.
https://colorbrewer2.org/#type=sequential&scheme=BuGn&n=3

You specify your colours with the hex code as follows:

background = CXe5f5f9 for a pale light green for example.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2012/10/22/whats-in-a-name.html

[ballardw]

SAS supports several color naming conventions.

If you want one that is human understandable use

Color Naming System which uses these keywords

Lightness		Saturation	Hue
Black		Gray	Blue
Very Dark		Grayish	Purple
Dark		Moderate	Red
Medium		Strong	Orange/Brown
Light		Vivid	Yellow
Very Light			Green
White

You combine the keywords (except BLACK and WHITE, regardless of modifiers you get the same color)

You can write color names in the following ways:

• without space separators between words
• with an underscore to separate words
• with a space to separate words, enclosed in quotation marks

For example, all the following are valid color specifications:

• verylightmoderatepurplishblue
• very_light_moderate_purplish_blue
• "very light moderate purplish blue"

 Notice the use of "ish" with one hue value to modify another. Some won't make a lot of sense like "bluish_blue" but are not syntactically incorrect.

Experiment and have fun.

Or learn the CMYK, RGB, HSV, HLS and similar numeric codes. If you don't use these often when you see something like "cx123123" you may not remember what that means.

There are also the "standard" color names. You should be able to get a list of them running this code:

proc registry list
 startat="COLORNAMES";
run;

The log will show the color name followed by hex code values for the colors using RGB coding.

You can modify the registry list to include your list of names but unless you have an overriding need to use "BillsFavBlue" it may be more work to keep track of the code for when an update is needed than is worth it.