The Easy Way to Pick UI Colors
AI Summary
The video explores color theory for UI design, emphasizing practical application over scientific complexity. It advocates using neutral colors for backgrounds, text, and borders, a primary brand color for key actions, and semantic colors for state communication. The presenter prefers HSL color format for creating shades, discussing how lightness controls shade variations while keeping hue and saturation fixed for neutrality. The video compares dark and light UI modes, explaining how to invert lightness values to switch modes effectively. CSS implementation tips are provided to define colors and toggle themes, enhanced with gradients, borders, and shadows for depth. The video introduces a tool for adjusting hue and saturation dynamically to achieve desired vibrancy and balance. It also explains the newer OKLCH color format, comparing it to HSL and LCH, highlighting its advantages in producing natural shade increments, noting Tailwind’s adoption of OKLCH with their V4 update. Ultimately, the video encourages using these methods to create harmonious, visually pleasing UIs with simple code, offering a ready-to-use theme code.