Cayley Table Wikipedia Notation

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Wikipedia says that this is a Cayley table of Dih4:

Cayley table of Dih4 group

Can somebody explain what are these numbers/colors mean?
Wikipedia page on Cayley table uses letters and does not mention any numbers.

Also what are these small tables with red squares on top/left mean?
There are other examples of such a schemes like here

Update:

I recently figured out that 'small tables with red squares' are actually a permutation matrices corresponding to the group's elements, but the question about numbers and colors is still open.

Update 2:

as Nex pointed out the numbers come from Caley table of S4 group. Symmetric group S4 page contains explanation of the colors:

Even permutations are white:

  • the identity
  • eight 3-cycles
  • three double-transpositions (in bold typeface)
    Odd permutations are colored:
  • six transpositions (green)
  • six 4-cycles (orange)