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Clarify what we mean by 'color' in markdown

Amy Qualls requested to merge 215903-aqualls-clarify-color into master

What does this MR do?

I found #215903 (closed) as part of reading through the groupsource code backlog. I tried to make clearer in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#colors that we're talking about color chips and not changing text color. A bit of revision to smooth out the text. Also, in the original issue I logged a bit of time confirming that GFM / GLFM don't support changes to text color. In some cases elsewhere, HTML <span> tags can be used to work around it, but my quick tests tell me we (sensibly) strip that styling out.

I'll want to pass this first to Chad to make sure I haven't introduced bad nuance, and then I'll route it over to a TW for style review.

Related issues

Related to Improve Documentation on Markdown for Colored Text (#215903 - closed).

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