title: Simple way to change color of "special" special character
body: <p>Is it possible to change the color of this and other special characters?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div style="color:red;"&gt;This text is red but the following symbol isn't: &amp;#10006 &lt;/div&gt;
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  <p>Apparently, the symbol is actually an image. So that explains why it's immune to the color attribute. But is there a way of changing the color nonetheless?</p>
  
  <p>I found this question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7415872/change-color-of-png-image-via-css">Change color of PNG image via CSS?</a> but the answer a) didn't work in my browser or b) required several lines of code. I wondered whether there might be a better alternative, since this should be a very common issue.</p>