Is there a way to change the font color of a piece of text ONLY on beamer mode?

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I'm building a beamer presentation and would like to have some parts of the text shown as red on specific slides, but ONLY on beamer mode (as opposed to handout mode). I have tried the following:

\color<beamer:2>{red}{some text}

The above worked well on beamer mode (the text was shown in red on slide 2, and black on the other slides). However, in handout mode, the text is red.

Is there a way for the text to be red on slide 2 on beamer mode, black on all other slides, and also black on handout mode?

Thanks, but no, I want the exact opposite. I want that piece of text to be BLACK in handout mode.
Oddly enough, your suggestion makes the text red in beamer mode too. Is something wrong with my xcolor package or is that supposed to happen? — Gabriela, Oct 24 '12 at 12:58
In the case this doesn't help, I think it would be better to add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem, so that those who want to help you don't have to make it themselves. — yo', Oct 24 '12 at 13:06
OK, here you go: http://pastebin.com/E5WEFtA5
This works well on beamer mode, but the red text remains red in handout mode. — Gabriela, Oct 24 '12 at 13:21
@Gabriela Next time, you can simply edit your question and add the code there ;) — yo', Oct 24 '12 at 16:23

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Use

\color<beamer:2|handout:0>{red}{some text}

The thing to remember about overlay specifications is that the default assumption is to take the action. So when in handout mode, TeX sees \color<beamer:2>{red}{some text} and asks "I'm in handout mode, is there any reason not to execute \color?". To which the response is "No" as there's no specific handout declaration. Putting in handout:0 says "In handout mode only do this on slide 0". As there is never a slide 0, this effectively says "In handout mode don't do this".

See also the following for similar issues with specifying overlays if you find examples helpful to learn about things like this:

Till Tantau gave us pgfkeys and overlay specifications. Marvelous innovations! — Matthew Leingang, Oct 03 '13 at 15:12
I was wondering if there is a command to globally specify the handout color. — Philip, Apr 07 '16 at 16:06

Is there a way to change the font color of a piece of text ONLY on beamer mode?

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