Color Palette     

Quasar Framework offers a wide selection of colors out of the box. You can use them both as Stylus variables in your CSS code or directly as CSS classes in your HTML templates.

This page comes really handy after reading Quasar Theming. You might also want to check Color Utils.

Brand Colors

There can be three main colors used throughout your App, called primary, secondary and tertiary.

Most of the colors that Quasar Components use are strongly linked with these three colors that you can change. Choosing these colors is the first step one should take when differentiating the design of its own App. You’ll notice immediately on changing their default values that Quasar Components follow these colors as a guideline.

Color List

Here’s the list of colors provided out of the box. Use them as CSS classes (in HTML templates) or as Stylus variables (in <style lang="stylus"> tags) within your app’s *.vue files.

primary, secondary, tertiary
positive, negative, info, warning, white, light, dark, faded

On the following colors there are variations available:
red, pink, purple, deep-purple, indigo, blue, light-blue, cyan, teal, green, light-green, lime, yellow, amber, orange, deep-orange, brown, grey, blue-grey

Example of color variation: red, red-1, red-2, …, red-14. See the demo to make a good picture of what variations are. Variation 11 to 14 are color accents.

Using as CSS Classes

Use text- or bg- prefixes as class names to change the color of text or the color of the background.

<!-- changing text color -->
<p class="text-primary">....</p>

<!-- changing background color -->
<p class="bg-positive">...</p>

Using Stylus Variables

In your app’s *.vue files you can use the colors as $primary, $red-1, and so on.

<!-- Notice lang="stylus" -->
<style lang="stylus">
// "variables" is a Webpack alias injected by Quasar CLI
@import '~variables'

div
  color $red-1
  background-color $grey-5
</style>

Adding Your Own Colors

If you want to use colors of your own for components, let’s say we are adding a color named “brand”, all you need to do is add the following CSS into your app:

.text-brand {
  color: #a2aa33;
}
.bg-brand {
  background: #a2aa33;
}

Now we can use this color for Quasar components:

<q-input color="brand" ... />

Dynamic Change of Brand Colors (Dynamic Theme Colors)

WARNING
This is only supported on browsers that support CSS Variables (Custom Properties).
It is not going to work on IE11, but it will fall back to the brand colors from the CSS theme.

This feature requires Quasar v0.15.7+

You can dynamically customize the brand colors during run-time: primary, secondary, tertiary, positive, negative, info, warning, light, dark, faded. That means you can have one build of your application with a default color theme but show it with a runtime selected one.

The main color configuration is done using CSS custom properties, stored on the root element (:root). Each property has a name of --q-color-${name} (example: --q-color-primary, --q-color-secondary) and should have a valid CSS color as value.

The CSS Custom properties use the same inheritance rules as normal CSS, so you can only redefine your desired colors and the rest will be inherited from the parent elements.

The recommended workflow is to set your customized color properties on the html (document.documentElement) or body (document.body) elements. This will allow you to revert to the default color by just deleting your custom one.

More info on CSS custom properties (variables): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_variables

Helper - setBrand

Quasar offers a helper function for setting custom colors in the colors utils: setBrand(colorName, colorValue[, element])

Parameter Type Required Description
colorName String Yes One of primary, secondary, tertiary, positive, negative, info, warning, light, dark, faded
colorValue String Yes Valid CSS color value
element Element - (Default: document.body) Element where the custom property will be set.

Example of setting brand colors using the helper:

import { colors } from 'quasar'

colors.setBrand('light', '#DDD')
colors.setBrand('primary', '#33F')
colors.setBrand('primary', '#F33', document.getElementById('rebranded-section-id'))

The helper function will also take care of setting dependent custom properties for some colors (positive, negative, light), so this is the recommended way of usage instead of the raw Javascript setProperty().

Helper - getBrand

Quasar offers a helper function for setting custom colors in the colors utils: getBrand(colorName[, element])

Parameter Type Required Description
colorName String Yes One of primary, secondary, tertiary, positive, negative, info, warning, light, dark, faded
element Element - (Default: document.body) Element where the custom property will be read.

Example of getting brand colors using the helper:

import { colors } from 'quasar'

colors.getBrand('primary') // '#33F'
colors.getBrand('primary', document.getElementById('rebranded-section-id'))

What this helper does is wrap the raw Javascript getPropertyValue() and it’s available for convenience. Example of equivalent raw Javascript:

// equivalent of colors.getBrand('primary') in raw Javascript:

getComputedStyle(document.documentElement)
  .getPropertyValue('--q-color-primary') // #0273d4
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Last updated: Mon Jul 23 2018
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