Title: Change Color in Shortcode?
Last modified: September 4, 2017

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# Change Color in Shortcode?

 *  Resolved [frudoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frudoc/)
 * (@frudoc)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-color-in-shortcode/)
 * So far I have this: [icon name=”fa-download” class=”fa-2x”]
 * What do I need to do to change the color of the icon?
 * Or do I have to give it a class and use CSS?
 * Thank you!
    Dan
    -  This topic was modified 9 years ago by [frudoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frudoc/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-color-in-shortcode/#post-9484348)
 * Hi Dan,
 * This question has been asked a ton of times, so please check the existing answers
   in other support threads. tldr; this type of display-layer styling should ideally
   be the responsibility of your theme, not this plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [frudoc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frudoc/)
 * (@frudoc)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-color-in-shortcode/#post-9484374)
 * Ya, sorry. I had not found an answer that was clear to me in the support threads.
   Blame it on my ignorance. My theme *does* apply the default color to the icons.
   I am trying to *change* the color in certain circumstances. Seeing as how the
   size can easily be changed inside of the shortcode, I wondered if the color could,
   too. So, I asked how I could do this or if I needed to style it with CSS. I’ve
   moved on from this plugin but will assume CSS is needed to get the job done if
   I ever come back.
 *  [spiros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spiros/)
 * (@spiros)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-color-in-shortcode/#post-9788658)
 * For example you can use this shortcode:
    `[icon name="address-book" class="2x"
   unprefixed_class="blue"]`
 * Add in your css
 * `.blue {color:#337ab7;}`

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