From the course: Windows Presentation Foundation 4: Brushes and Colors

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Color and colorspaces

Color and colorspaces

From the course: Windows Presentation Foundation 4: Brushes and Colors

Start my 1-month free trial

Color and colorspaces

- [Narrator] When you think of the color choices available for your application, you probably envision a colorful palette like this color wheel. This wheel represents the range of colors that most of us think of when we are asked to visualize all the colors. You won't use all these colors in your app, so at some point you'll pick a color. In your application you'll take that color and paint a section of the UI with it. To accomplish this task you'll need to use a concrete implementation of a painting tool. In WPF this is a solid color brush. And you'll need a concrete implementation of colors that works for the user hardware, especially their computer monitor. That color system needs to be complete and readily usable by developers and designers, and it needs to look good in the finished application. Let's go back and look at this color wheel. It looks like it represents all the colors. It has red, orange, yellow and green, and blue and purple, and it has many variations of those…

Contents