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

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.