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, use one of the new colors as you would the system colors. So, instead of: self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor] do something like this: self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor tomatoColor]

System Colors

• infoBlueColor
• successColor
• warningColor
• dangerColor

Whites

• antiqueWhiteColor
• oldLaceColor
• ivoryColor
• seashellColor
• ghostWhiteColor
• snowColor
• linenColor

Grays

• black25PercentColor
• black50PercentColor
• black75PercentColor
• warmGrayColor
• coolGrayColor
• charcoalColor

Blues

• tealColor
• steelBlueColor
• robinEggColor
• pastelBlueColor
• turquoiseColor
• skyBlueColor
• indigoColor
• denimColor
• blueberryColor
• cornflowerColor
• babyBlueColor
• midnightBlueColor
• fadedBlueColor
• icebergColor
• waveColor

Greens

• emeraldColor
• grassColor
• pastelGreenColor
• seafoamColor
• paleGreenColor
• cactusGreenColor
• chartreuseColor
• hollyGreenColor
• oliveColor
• oliveDrabColor
• moneyGreenColor
• honeydewColor
• limeColor
• cardTableColor

Reds

• salmonColor
• brickRedColor
• easterPinkColor
• grapefruitColor
• pinkColor
• indianRedColor
• strawberryColor
• coralColor
• maroonColor
• watermelonColor
• tomatoColor
• pinkLipstickColor
• paleRoseColor
• crimsonColor

Purples

• eggplantColor
• pastelPurpleColor
• palePurpleColor
• coolPurpleColor
• violetColor
• plumColor
• lavenderColor
• raspberryColor
• fuschiaColor
• grapeColor
• periwinkleColor
• orchidColor

Yellows

• goldenrodColor
• yellowGreenColor
• bananaColor
• mustardColor
• buttermilkColor
• goldColor
• creamColor
• lightCreamColor
• wheatColor
• beigeColor

Oranges

• peachColor
• burntOrangeColor
• pastelOrangeColor
• cantaloupeColor
• carrotColor
• mandarinColor

Browns

• chiliPowderColor
• burntSiennaColor
• chocolateColor
• coffeeColor
• cinnamonColor
• almondColor
• eggshellColor
• coffeeColor
• sandColor
• mudColor
• siennaColor
• dustColor

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 colorSchemeOfType:ColorSchemeType];

ColorSchemeTypes

• ColorSchemeAnalagous
• ColorSchemeMonochromatic
• ColorSchemeTriad
• ColorSchemeComplementary

CocoaPods

pod 'Colours', '~> 2.0'

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.