<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>
<font size="2" color="blue">This is some text!</font>
<font face="verdana" color="green">This is some text!</font>

Using a style attribute in a &lsqb;div] won't work either.

The Admins reduced the allowed HTML after the last hack of DU. I believe I have all the tags that work listed here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=1674


If you really need something special, you could make an image and the post the picture - although that may produce varying results on mobile devices.

size and color was very useful for emphasis

They seemed to have used a chainsaw to fix a problem requiring a scalpel.

Perhaps we need to start threads in more visible forums requesting a specific html tag be reinstated and ask people to K&R if they agree? Maybe they could create custom [size] and [color] tags for the forum.