Mixing Colors

This lesson discusses the main problems that arise when dealing with colors in an application and how mixing colors in a certain way provides the solution.

Problems #

Here’s our conundrum when it comes to colors:

  • Manually picking up the different variations of colors we need in our app is hard and prone to error.
  • When different themes have different brightness levels, the color from one of them usually doesn’t translate very well to the other.

Here’s an example of what we’re talking about. Let’s create some label and use blue as a background and color, we’ll use a lighter blue for the background:

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