As of recently, the Scrivito Example App comes with several color themes. If one of them is perfect for your website based on this app, you can simply use it as is. But you can also change the colors individually to give your site the look and feel you want it to have. Switching the color theme is as easy as commenting the active one out and uncommenting the one you want. For detailed instructions, see Changing Colors in the Example App.
Choosing a Color Theme in the Scrivito Example App
The Example App uses Sass, and Sass offers variables. Variables are extremely handy because you can define values such as colors in just one place to have them applied wherever the variables are used. For the Example App, the color values are defined in the file src/assets/stylesheets/variables/_colors.scss.
Branding and background colors
Each color theme includes two branding colors, $primary and $secondary, which are applied to controls, icons and the like, as well as five $theme-grey* colors used for section backgrounds. Here’s what the eight included themes look like:
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/* colors
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/* colors theme 01 - original */
$primary: #4ecdc4 !default;
$secondary: #ff6b6b !default;
$theme-grey: #2e353c;
$theme-greydark: #3d4142;
$theme-greylight: #dadada;
$theme-greymiddle: #716f73;
$theme-greywhite: #fbfbfb;Color variants overview
Theme 01 – original
Theme 02 – green 01
Theme 03 – green 02
Theme 04 – red 01
Theme 05 – red 02
Theme 06 – blue
Theme 07 – yellow
Theme 08 – pink
Little helpers
There’s an uncountable number of color pickers on the web. We found the ones below to be particularly well made. Happy color picking!
- https://colorhunt.co Colorhunt - Color Palettes for Designers and Artists
- https://www.webdesignrankings.com/resources/lolcolors LolColors - Curated color palette inspiration
- https://coolors.co Coolors - The super fast color schemes generator!
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