How may a titlepage be colored?

Question

Suppose I have a titlepage like

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.54cm, top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
    \parbox[t]{0.93\textwidth}{ 
        \parbox[t]{0.91\textwidth}{ 
            \raggedleft 
            \fontsize{50pt}{80pt}\selectfont 

            The duck who wanted to be a prince

        }
    }


\begin{figure}[!htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 50mm]{example-image-duck}
\end{figure}


\end{titlepage}
\newpage ~
\end{document}

How may its background be colored, while the second, and succeeding pages remain white?

The answer I've given to question https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/686915/277964 does also work in your case. — cabohah, May 29 '23 at 16:56

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '23 at 14:23

You can switch back to white after your title page:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.54cm, top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\pagecolor{red} 
        \parbox[t]{0.93\textwidth}{ 
            \parbox[t]{0.91\textwidth}{ 
                \raggedleft 
                \fontsize{50pt}{80pt}\selectfont
            The duck who wanted to be a prince

        }
    }


\begin{figure}[!htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 50mm]{example-image-duck}
\end{figure}
\AddToHookNext{shipout/after}{\pagecolor{white}}

\end{titlepage}
\newpage  ~
\end{document}

Or you could e.g. use tikz to place a big coloured rectangle behind your title page:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.54cm, top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\begin{tikzpicture}[overlay, remember picture]
\fill[red] (current page.south west) rectangle (current page.north east);
\end{tikzpicture}
        \parbox[t]{0.93\textwidth}{ 
            \parbox[t]{0.91\textwidth}{ 
                \raggedleft 
                \fontsize{50pt}{80pt}\selectfont
            The duck who wanted to be a prince

        }
    }


\begin{figure}[!htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 50mm]{example-image-duck}
\end{figure}


\end{titlepage}
\newpage  ~
\end{document}

IMHO it is better to use \nopagecolor instead of \pagecolor{white}, if the driver supports it. — cabohah, May 29 '23 at 17:05

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '23 at 17:03

My answer to a similar question does also work in your case:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.54cm, top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\AddToHook{env/titlepage/begin}{\pagecolor{green}}
\AddToHook{env/titlepage/after}{\nopagecolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
    \parbox[t]{0.93\textwidth}{ 
        \parbox[t]{0.91\textwidth}{ 
            \raggedleft 
            \fontsize{50pt}{80pt}\selectfont 

            The duck who wanted to be a prince

        }
    }


\begin{figure}[!htb]% figure environment does not really make sense here
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 50mm]{example-image-duck}
\end{figure}


\end{titlepage}
\newpage ~
\end{document}

or with an old LaTeX:

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[left=2.50cm, right=2.54cm, top=2.54cm, bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage} 
\pagecolor{green}
        \parbox[t]{0.93\textwidth}{ 
            \parbox[t]{0.91\textwidth}{ 
                \raggedleft 
                \fontsize{50pt}{80pt}\selectfont
            The duck who wanted to be a prince

        }
    }


\begin{figure}[!htb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width = 50mm]{example-image-duck}
\end{figure}


\end{titlepage}
\nopagecolor
\newpage ~
\end{document}

Both result in:

BTW: A figure environment without caption at the title page does not really make sense. You should either just remove \begin{figure}[!htb] and \end{figure} or replace the figure environment by a center environment (and remove \centering).

How may a titlepage be colored?

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