Colours for iOS

A beautiful set of 100 predefined UIColors, and UIColor methods, ready to use in your next iOS project.

Installation

Drag the included Colours.h and Colours.m files into your project. They are located in the top-level directory. You can see a demo of how to use these with the included Xcode project as well.

Import Colours.h into your ViewController.h file, and that's it.

Using Colours

It's very simple. Whenever you set a property that is a UIColor, like self.view.backgroundColor, instead of doing something like self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor] use one of the new colors like so self.view.backgroundColor = ColorTeal

System Colors

• ColorInfoBlue
• ColorSuccess
• ColorWarning
• ColorDanger

Whites

• ColorAntiqueWhite
• ColorOldLace
• ColorIvory
• ColorSeashell
• ColorGhostWhite
• ColorSnow
• ColorLinen

Grays

• Color25PercentBlack
• Color50PercentBlack
• Color75PercentBlack
• ColorWarmGray
• ColorCoolGray
• ColorCharcoal

Blues

• ColorTeal
• ColorSteelBlue
• ColorRobinEgg
• ColorPastelBlue
• ColorTurquoise
• ColorSkyBlue
• ColorIndigo
• ColorDenim
• ColorBlueberry
• ColorCornflower
• ColorBabyBlue
• ColorMidnightBlue
• ColorFadedBlue
• ColorIceberg
• ColorWave

Greens

• ColorEmerald
• ColorGrass
• ColorPastelGreen
• ColorSeafoam
• ColorPaleGreen
• ColorCactusGreen
• ColorChartreuse
• ColorHollyGreen
• ColorOlive
• ColorOliveDrab
• ColorMoneyGreen
• ColorHoneydew
• ColorLime
• ColorCardTable

Reds

• ColorSalmon
• ColorBrickRed
• ColorEasterPink
• ColorGrapefruit
• ColorPink
• ColorIndianRed
• ColorStrawberry
• ColorCoral
• ColorMaroon
• ColorWatermelon
• ColorTomato
• ColorPinkLipstick
• ColorPaleRose
• ColorCrimson

Purples

• ColorEggplant
• ColorPastelPurple
• ColorPalePurple
• ColorCoolPurple
• ColorViolet
• ColorPlum
• ColorLavender
• ColorRaspberry
• ColorFuschia
• ColorGrape
• ColorPeriwinkle
• ColorOrchid

Yellows

• ColorGoldenrod
• ColorYellowGreen
• ColorBanana
• ColorMustard
• ColorButtermilk
• ColorGold
• ColorCream
• ColorLightCream
• ColorWheat
• ColorBeige

Oranges

• ColorPeach
• ColorBurntOrange
• ColorPastelOrange
• ColorCantaloupe
• ColorCarrot
• ColorMandarin

Browns

• ColorChiliPowder
• ColorBurntSienna
• ColorChocolate
• ColorCoffee
• ColorCinnamon
• ColorAlmond
• ColorEggshell
• ColorCoffee
• ColorSand
• ColorMud
• ColorSienna
• ColorDust

Colours Methods

You can grab a UIColor from a hexString by calling colorFromHex:

UIColor *newColor = [Colours colorFromHex:@"#f587e4"];

You can also grab a Hex string by calling hexFromColor:

NSString *hexString = [Colours hexFromColor:ColorRobinEgg];
// Output: #8ddaf7

If you'd like the RGBA values of any UIColor, just call the rgbaArrayFromColor method. It returns an array of 4 NSNumbers, RGBA - in that order. Here's how you'd call this:

NSArray *colorArray = [Colours rgbaArrayFromColor:self.view.backgroundColor];
float r = [colorArray[0] floatValue];
float g = [colorArray[1] floatValue];
float b = [colorArray[2] floatValue];
float a = [colorArray[3] floatValue];

Generating Color Schemes

You can create a 5-color scheme based off of a UIColor using the following method. It takes in a UIColor and one of the ColorSchemeTypes defined in Colours. It returns an NSArray of 4 new UIColor objects to create a pretty nice color scheme that complements the root color you passed in.

NSArray *colorScheme = [Colours generateColorSchemeFromColor:(UIColor *)color ofType:ColorSchemeType];

ColorSchemeTypes

• ColorSchemeAnalagous
• ColorSchemeMonochromatic
• ColorSchemeTriad
• ColorSchemeComplementary

CocoaPods

pod 'Colours', '~> 1.0.1'

For help setting up and maintaining dependencies using CocoaPods check out this link: http://cocoapods.org/

Reap What I Sow!

This project is distributed under the standard MIT License. Please use this and twist it in whatever fashion you wish - and recommend any cool changes to help the code.