Expected number

Hi! me again :)/>

I am trying to make a program that outputs a word of the users choice, in whatever color they want

Here is my code

word = ""
print("What word do you want to display?")
word = read()
print("What color do you want the text to be?")
color = read()
term.setTextColor("colors." .. color)
print(word)

i am getting the error Expected number when attempting to term.setTextColor

The way I wrote that, it should work i would think?

For the colors part; you cannot use a string. You should use colors['blue'] for example

Or you could use this(not best solution):

term.setTextColor(loadstring("return colors." .. color)())