Color in storyboard not matching UIColor

ios colors interface-builder uistoryboard uicolor
Nick picture Nick · Feb 6, 2015 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

I am defining a color in code as

[UIColor colorWithHue:32.0/360.0 saturation:0.88 brightness:0.97 alpha:1]

If I try to set the same color in storyboard, when running the App it is a slightly different colour to the one defined in code. If I drag the color to the palate then select a different color and select the palate one again, the HSB values are slightly different. It seems it is snapping to a different (RGB?) color in interface builder.

Answer

camilomq picture camilomq · Oct 15, 2016

Xcode 8+, iOS 10+

I recently faced this problem and none of the posted answers did it. It turns out that with the release of iOS 10 SDK, the UIColor initializer init(red:green:blue:alpha:) now uses the extended sRGB range, so you have to set accordingly when configuring your color values on the Storyboard.

enter image description here

See Apple's documentation: https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uicolor/1621925-init

Related questions

How can I get the iOS 7 default blue color programmatically?

I'm creating custom elements in my app and want to match the look and feel of the new iOS. iOS 7 introduced to us a very common lighter blue color, the default color or tint for several elements, including the system …

Read More
UITextField border color

I have really great wish to set my own color to UITextField border. But so far I could find out how to change the border line style only. I've used background property to set background color in such way: self.…

Read More
Change UITextField and UITextView Cursor / Caret Color

I'm wondering about changing the color of the cursor / caret in a UITextField (And UITextView if its the same answer) in iOS. I've seen answers for OSX development, but nothing for iOS. Is this even possible?

Read More