This glyph was conventionally colored {{{1}}}.
This template templatizes information about what color an Egyptian hieroglyph was conventionally colored.
1
is the color.2=y
to suppress "colored".nodot
suppresses the dot{{egy-hiero-color|yellow}} displays This glyph was conventionally colored yellow. and adds Category:Yellow Egyptian hieroglyphs
{{egy-hiero-color|polychrome|2=y}} displays This glyph was conventionally polychrome. and adds Category:Polychrome Egyptian hieroglyphs
This template is very basic.
See also Template:egy-hiero-color-men, which exists to templatize/standardize the wording which applies to a number of glyphs depicting men.