# Color Templates

This section will describe **Color Templates** in Cacti.  **Color Templates** define a list of Colors to be used for **Aggregate Graphs** in Cacti.  As you add **Graphs** to an **Aggregate Graph**, you need to distinguish one **Graph** from the next within the **Aggregate Graph**.  These **Color Templates** are a list of colors that will be looped through in Round Robin fashion to render the **Aggregate Graph**.  So, for example, if your **Color Template** uses 8 differing **Colors**, and your **Aggregate Graph** includes 16 *Graph Items*, then each color will be used twice in the **Aggregate Graph**.

Below, you can see the four standard **Color Templates**, you can see that you have the ability to either *Delete* or *Duplicate* the **Color Templates**.  As with other Cacti objects, you will not be allowed to *Delete* a **Color Template** in use.

![Color Templates](images/color-templates.png)

In the image below, you can see the **Color Template** edit screen.  This simply screen allows you to add, remove and re-order colors in the list.

![Color Templates Edit](images/color-templates-edit1.png)

Shown in the image below, only Cacti **Colors** are allowed to be selected for Aggregate **Color Templates**.  The **Color** drop down can by typed into if you wish to search through the list of approximately 340 legacy and *Named Colors*.

![Color Templates Item Edit](images/color-templates-edit2.png)

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