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 UIColor+Colours.h and UIColor+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 UIColor+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 = [UIColor tealColor]

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 = [UIColor colorFromHexString:@"#f587e4"];

You can also grab a Hex string by calling hexString:

NSString *hexString = [color hexString];
// 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 = [self.view.backgroundColor rgbaArray];
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 = [color generateColorSchemeOfType: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.