[FIXED] How to change color in markdown cells ipython/jupyter notebook?

Issue

I'm only looking to format a specific string within a cell. I change that cell's format to "Markdown" but I'm not sure how to change text color of a single word.

I don't want to change the look of the whole notebook (via a CSS file).

Solution

You can simply use raw html tags like

foo <font color='red'>bar</font> foo

Be aware that this will not survive a conversion of the notebook to latex.

As there are some complaints about the deprecation of the proposed solution. They are totally valid and Scott has already answered the question with a more recent, i.e. CSS based approach. Nevertheless, this answer shows some general approach to use html tags within IPython to style markdown cell content beyond the available pure markdown capabilities.

Answered By - Jakob