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I'm developing a sign up page, by putting some text as the title at the navigation bar. I want to give those texts different colors. For this purpose I'm using a separate CSS file, but I want to do this using bootstrap's CSS file.

Can anybody list the available color classes in bootstrap?

Ted Delezene
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fidel castro
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The bootstrap 3 documentation lists this under helper classes: Muted, Primary, Success, Info, Warning, Danger.

The bootstrap 4 documentation lists this under utilities -> color, and has more options: primary, secondary, success, danger, warning, info, light, dark, muted, white.

The bootstrap 5 documentation lists this under utilities -> color, and has even more options: primary,primary-emphasis,secondary,secondary-emphasis,success,success-emphasis,danger,danger-emphasis,warning,warning-emphasis,info,info-emphasis,light,light-emphasis,dark,dark-emphasis,body,body-emphasis,body-secondary,body-tertiary,black,white,black-50,white-50.
Please be aware that some of these are deprecated and will be removed next release.

To access them one uses the class text-[class-name]

So, if I want the primary text color for example I would do something like this:

<p class="text-primary">This text is the primary color.</p>

This is not a huge number of choices, but it's some.

Ted Delezene
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    I would hesitate to say if you "want blue text". That class should be used when you're wanting to apply the primary color, which by default happens to be blue. But if `$primary` changes, then your formally blue text would also change. If you want to make sure you always have blue text, you should set the text to whatever shade of blue you want it to be. – jacroe Sep 27 '19 at 20:13
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The text at the navigation bar is normally colored by using one of the two following css classes in the bootstrap.css file.

Firstly, in case of using a default navigation bar (the gray one), the .navbar-default class will be used and the text is colored as dark gray.

.navbar-default .navbar-text {
  color: #777;
}

The other is in case of using an inverse navigation bar (the black one), the text is colored as gray60. 

.navbar-inverse .navbar-text {
  color: #999;
}

So, you can change its color as you wish. However, I would recommend you to use a separate css file to change it.

NOTE: you could also use the customizer provided by Twitter Bootstrap, in the Navbar section.

lvarayut
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You can use text classes:

.text-primary
.text-secondary
.text-success
.text-danger
.text-warning
.text-info
.text-light
.text-dark
.text-muted
.text-white

use text classes in any tag where needed.

<p class="text-primary">.text-primary</p>
<p class="text-secondary">.text-secondary</p>
<p class="text-success">.text-success</p>
<p class="text-danger">.text-danger</p>
<p class="text-warning">.text-warning</p>
<p class="text-info">.text-info</p>
<p class="text-light bg-dark">.text-light</p>
<p class="text-dark">.text-dark</p>
<p class="text-muted">.text-muted</p>
<p class="text-white bg-dark">.text-white</p>

You can add your own classes or modify above classes as your requirement.

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There are few more classess in Bootstrap 4 (added in recent versions) not mentioned in other answers.

.text-black-50 and .text-white-50 are 50% transparent.

.text-body {
  color: #212529 !important;
}

.text-black-50 {
  color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) !important;
}

.text-white-50 {
  color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5) !important;
}

/*DEMO*/
p{padding:.5rem}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.3.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">

<p class="text-body">.text-body</p>
<p class="text-black-50">.text-black-50</p>
<p class="text-white-50 bg-dark">.text-white-50</p>
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