Add a custom color palette to XCode Interface Builder

ios xcode interface-builder
Pheepster picture Pheepster · Feb 13, 2015 · Viewed 25.2k times · Source

My current long term project utilizes a palette of custom colors. In code, we are using a category to access these colors by name. This works great but there are times, such as when building a nib, that these colors won't be set programmatically.

I am looking for a way to define a named set of colors. For instance, when setting a background color for a UIView, I would like my drop list in Interface Builder to list my custom colors by name. Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? Thanks!

Answer

Mark Moeykens picture Mark Moeykens · Nov 17, 2017

Xcode 9

You now have another option to add Color Sets or Named Colors to your assets. This is new in Xcode 9.

1. Adding Named Colors to Your Project

Adding Named Colors

In *.xcassets > right-click > New Color Set

2. Assigning Name Colors to Views

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Your new Named Colors show up in your Color Picker now in their own section.

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