How do I set the colour of a label (coloured text) in Java?

February 4, 2023 by Tarik

For single color foreground color

label.setForeground(Color.RED)

(I would probably put two labels next to each other using a GridLayout or something, but here goes…)

You could use html in your label text as follows:

frame.add(new JLabel("<html>Text color: <font color="red">red</font></html>"));

which produces:

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