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A task app for Android
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Color picker with only Material Design colors #223

Open PanderMusubi opened 8 years ago

PanderMusubi commented 8 years ago

Could the color picker here (and for CalDAV-Sync) be configured to offer only colors from Material Design? Color palettes for Material Design can be found at https://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html#color-color-palette and http://www.materialui.co/

dmfs commented 8 years ago

It certainly could. What's the problem with the other colors? We already have two Material color palettes in there. We've tried to add a few more of the color shades, but they were looking too similar so we left them out.

PanderMusubi commented 8 years ago

The other colors are fine too but a bit too many. So if adherence to Material Design is important, may reduce it a bit to only those colors. Otherwise leave it at this. (I know a small thing like this always gives discussions.)

dmfs commented 8 years ago

We'll certainly consider this. Maybe we can extend the color picker by an option to show only base colors or the extended palettes.

jkufner commented 8 years ago

I have two use cases for color picker:

  1. Select a color from a palette which will work nicely with other GUI.
  2. Select exact color given by design manual (hex code).

The second may sound a bit ridiculous, but when I want calendar for some institution (school, company, whatever), it usualy has logo and a primary color. If hex code can be provided, it is easy to get exactly the right color and nicely match the calendar with the institution.

If I were creating a color picker, I would select palette of few dozen colors and add the field for exact value specified by user. Because if you don't care, which color it is, plette is enough, and if you care, the color is never there.

PanderMusubi commented 8 years ago

So colors of Material Design and an optional manual override in RGB is OK?