What you shouldn t do.
Scss mat color.
Because darken is usually not the best way to make a color darker it s not included directly in the new module system.
I am hoping to have the background of a mat sidenav the same as my mat toolbar theme color.
Theme scss and custom component themes scss in our main styles scss and include their mixins so our updated file will look like below.
To generate a color palette we can use angular material s mat palette mix in.
To make a color a certain percentage darker than it was before use color scale instead.
Generating angular material custom color palette.
You can find theming file here.
The numbers behind the palette variable name select particular shades of chosen color for default lighter and darker variants if no numbers are provided.
Angular material2 uses a utility scss file styles scss which like theme scss is located in src and automatically compiles.
However if you have to preserve the existing behavior darken.
Mat palette takes a base palette yes that s another palette more on that in a second and returns a new palette that comes with material specific hue color values for light.
By simply importing the theme scss into styles scss you can tap into.
My first attempt was to create the color variables in the theme scss directly that s wrong because it would include mat core and angular material theme every time we.
In src styles scss i have.
This function adds or subtracts the specified amount to from the existing color value.
Adjusts the color s hue with a degree from 360deg to 360deg.
Angular material theme definition file.
First of let s take a look at the angular material color palette to understand how it works.
Adjust color color red green blue hue saturation lightness alpha adjusts one or more parameters by the specified amount.
The color names and values themselves are taken from the official material design color guidelines.
The next thing we need to do is to generate color palettes which can then be composed to an actual theme.
Mat palette takes a color name as its first argument.