Normal SF&F tags are all one color (blue with a lighter blue background):
But META.SF&F tags are all over the place:
What do the different colors (text and background) mean?
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2Dark grey is one of the four compulsory tags that have to be on every Meta question. Red is a special tag that can only be applied by diamonds, IIRC, [featured] is the most notable example of that.– alexwlchanMar 31, 2016 at 4:16
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1Strange; your images show a difference in colour between the featured and faq tags, which I can't see when looking at the tags on my screen. AFAIK, the only differences in colour are those described by Alex.– Rand al'Thor ModMar 31, 2016 at 11:59
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@Rand al'Thor: They have very slightly different background colours (not sure if that is intentional), but I doubt they can be distinguished if not right next to each other. For the screenshot above, I suspect the pointer might have been hovering over featured when it was taken.– chirluMar 31, 2016 at 13:05
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As a note, there's a key at the bottom of the tags page.– CatijaApr 1, 2016 at 2:24
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Looking at the legend on the /tags page, we see the following key:
[red: moderator-only-tag]
this is a moderator tag, it can only be added by a diamond moderator.
This includes tags like “faq”, any “status-XYZ” on feature requests and “community-ads”.
[dark grey: required-tag]
this is a required tag; every new question must have at least one required tag.
Namely “discussion”, “bug”, “feature request” and “support”.
[light grey: tag]
this is a standard tag; every question must have at least one tag.
These are analogous to the tags on SFF.se – they can be created, added and removed by any user (subject to rep requirements around tags/editing).
