There is, there's a text tag that can change your colour, and it goes like this:
<*font color="red"*>Text text text text text.<*/font*> (with asterisks removed) GIVES YOU:
Text text text text text.
There are two options for what to put inside those quotations. For basic colours (red, blue, white, black, purple, etc) you can just enter the name of the colour. For prettier, more subtle shades, you'll have to use the colour's hexidecimal code, which is a # followed by six digits (often both numbers and letters). There's a chart here that gives you quite a few hex codes, so you c'n have a look and decide which to use.
However, I wouldn't actually recommend changing your text colour; everyone's LJ has a different background colour (mine, for example, is black, Fliss's is... dark red I think), so you could end up using colours that clash horribly with the background their viewing on in a headachy fashion - on indeed accidentally use the same colour as the background so that we wouldn't see it at all!
I would instead recommend changing the font face itself - let's say, one of you with arial, one with serif. The tag for this is similar to the one above, but instead of 'color' you use 'face', like so:
<*font face="serif"*>Text in a serif font face.<*/font*> GIVES YOU:
Text in a serif font face.
So you could use arial, perhaps, like so, and then when it was Ari's turn to type you would switch to serif, like so. Which frankly is a lot better than changing colour all the time, isn't it?
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Date: 2005-08-29 03:56 pm (UTC)<*font color="red"*>Text text text text text.<*/font*> (with asterisks removed) GIVES YOU:
Text text text text text.
There are two options for what to put inside those quotations. For basic colours (red, blue, white, black, purple, etc) you can just enter the name of the colour. For prettier, more subtle shades, you'll have to use the colour's hexidecimal code, which is a # followed by six digits (often both numbers and letters). There's a chart here that gives you quite a few hex codes, so you c'n have a look and decide which to use.
However, I wouldn't actually recommend changing your text colour; everyone's LJ has a different background colour (mine, for example, is black, Fliss's is... dark red I think), so you could end up using colours that clash horribly with the background their viewing on in a headachy fashion - on indeed accidentally use the same colour as the background so that we wouldn't see it at all!
I would instead recommend changing the font face itself - let's say, one of you with arial, one with serif. The tag for this is similar to the one above, but instead of 'color' you use 'face', like so:
<*font face="serif"*>Text in a serif font face.<*/font*> GIVES YOU:
Text in a serif font face.
So you could use arial, perhaps, like so, and then when it was Ari's turn to type you would switch to serif, like so. Which frankly is a lot better than changing colour all the time, isn't it?