Scss Mat Color

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Scss mat color.

Adjust color color red green blue hue saturation lightness alpha adjusts one or more parameters by the specified amount. To make a color a certain percentage darker than it was before use color scale instead. To generate a color palette we can use angular material s mat palette mix in. Because darken is usually not the best way to make a color darker it s not included directly in the new module system.

Mat palette takes a base palette yes that s another palette more on that in a second and returns a new palette that comes with material specific hue color values for light. In src styles scss i have. Theme scss and custom component themes scss in our main styles scss and include their mixins so our updated file will look like below. The darken function decreases lightness by a fixed amount which is often not the desired effect.

Angular material theme definition file. Mat palette takes a color name as its first argument. Let s import both. The numbers behind the palette variable name select particular shades of chosen color for default lighter and darker variants if no numbers are provided.

The next thing we need to do is to generate color palettes which can then be composed to an actual theme. Generating angular material custom color palette. First of let s take a look at the angular material color palette to understand how it works. The color names and values themselves are taken from the official material design color guidelines.

Angular material2 uses a utility scss file styles scss which like theme scss is located in src and automatically compiles. This function adds or subtracts the specified amount to from the existing color value. This is how color palettes are defined in angular material. However if you have to preserve the existing behavior darken.

You can find theming file here. I am hoping to have the background of a mat sidenav the same as my mat toolbar theme color.