# gvcolor > Colorize a ranked digraph with a range of colors. > Graphviz filters: `acyclic`, `bcomps`, `comps`, `edgepaint`, `gvcolor`, `gvpack`, `mingle`, `nop`, `sccmap`, `tred`, & `unflatten`. > More information: . - Colorize one or more ranked digraph (that were already processed by `dot`): `gvcolor {{path/to/layout1.gv}} {{path/to/layout2.gv ...}} > {{path/to/output.gv}}` - Lay out a graph and colorize it, then convert to a PNG image: `dot {{path/to/input.gv}} | gvcolor | dot -T {{png}} > {{path/to/output.png}}` - Display help for `gvcolor`: `gvcolor -?`