Hi everyone, in this video we are going to look at changing colors in Figma... that's pretty easy, it's going to get more challenging... when we have gone through this course... and some are using our color styles, and some are using the Hex number... the color looks the same... so we'll do a fine change to make sure all of those are consistent...

we'll look at some of the quirks with color styles when we're looking at opacity... and at the end I'll go through and I'm actually going to change... my primary color from, well, from that kind of red that I've been using, to green... because red is a terrible color for a primary color... you were all yelling that at the beginning of the course... and took me a while to realize that that looks like an error sign...

you'll notice, none of my buttons are that color... so not very good primary color, so I'm going to shift this to my Accent color... and introduce this green as my primary color... there you go, let's jump in. The quick way is to have nothing selected... and then go 'Command A' on a Mac, 'Ctrl A' on a PC to select all...

and then go down to your 'Selection Colors'... and say, show me them all, and then go and change whichever color you want... in here, I could go through and click on this and say... actually, want it to be the 900 now... and it goes through and updates, I'm going to undo. If it's a different color you might have to go figure it out first...

so you might have to go, actually, click on this color here... there it is, there, 7065E4... and do the same thing, select them all, go down to ''Selection Colors'... and you'll get the first ones, there it is, there... and I can go and change this one... using my scroll wheel to change the hue...

going a bit fast, so there it is, there. You'll notice, some of them didn't change, it's okay, I'll show you that in a sec... but that's the quickest and easy way, select all, find it, change it... I'm going to 'Esc' and 'undo'... oh, I'm going to undo a lot... there's a lot of undoing because it counted every scroll as an undo.

So there will be though, some of them tied into this... it's got all my kind of main colors here, and my main styles... you see, there's a bunch of other styles, there's a bunch of other colors... that you might have to dig around in, and figure out what it is... and that's the easiest way to change color... there is no Find Change at the moment in Figma...

there are plugins, I haven't had any success with them so far... end up being just as much hassle... or at least more hassle than actually just doing a Select All, and Change... the only trouble with doing it my way is that you have to do it per page... so if you've got 100 Pages, you have to do it 100 times, and that's no fun... but I haven't found a plugin that is better...

if you do have one that you've had success with, let me know in the comments... have a look down there yourself... see if somebody else has got a cool plugin that might work. One of the other things, that is kind of weird... about finding colors in this program, is that, this... did you notice that, when I said Select All...

find this color, where is it? This one here... is that not all of them changed, can you see... it actually treats - I'm going to undo that again. - it treats this one here, because it has an opacity as a separate color... which means double dipping, which is a pain in the butt...

so 'Select All', what you'll notice is, down here... there's a color, down there with the same number, 7065E4, there it is, there... so you have to change both of those unfortunately... there it is, there, and I can change it... it's considered a separate color... now that brings up a good point, when you're doing your styles...

at the moment that is not a percentage of my main style, why is it not? It's because, just so you know, if I make a color here... I go to my Color Styles, and I say, let's make it for 500... I can't play with the opacity of this, it's just a bug at the moment... if it's here it'd be great, it's the future... and you have got percentages for styles...

but at the moment I can't apply opacity... this opacity to the Fill layer of a style... I have to break it, and then play with the opacity, which is fine... because I could do this, right? I could say, you are... and then I could play around with the Layer Opacity, let's get it down to 50%.

The trouble with that though is, this one here, this, where is it? This has a percentage, can you see, it is set to 80%... it's so that we can see the stuff behind it... to kind of prove it, let's go over here and say... actually, this is, is that what I'm using? Yeah...

so this is my, this one here... is that the version we're using? Yes... so this one here is going to use a Fill of the Style... the Color Style of 500, and I'm going to play around the Layer Opacity... let's get it down to 50%...

can you see, it does it to the entire thing, not just the color... so that's something to note... and is it a bug? It's not really a bug, just something that hasn't been implemented in Figma yet. Another thing about those color styles as well... is that you can't have more than one...

watch this, color style, can I have another one? Nope, just, you can get rid of the color... but you can't have two color styles applied to it with different opacities... if you do want this to be part of your styles, you can create another style... so let's click on this one here, let's find it... and say, you are not currently a style, but we could...

hit the 'Styles' button, hit '+'... and we could call this one "500", and put in 1.8, so, 0.8... so 0.8 is really common, and the way to write percentages... when you're dealing with web... you could write 80%, that's totally fine... though your front-end web developer will probably go...

1.0, is 100%, and .0 is 0%... that is 50%, that is 80%... it is up to you, you'll see both around... I'm going to create a style, click off in the background... get it into the right place, you need to go in there... and you need to go there...

you can see, you can probably instantly see what the problem's going to be here... is that, how many do I create? Do I make a 0.1, 0,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... I'm just going to put this one in because that's what I'm using right now... and only put in the ones that I have to... because otherwise this is going to look a bit crazy...

and become less helpful. Next thing I'm going to do is, I was being lazy throughout this course... and I applied the style sometimes, and sometimes I went like this... I went, you have a Fill color of Local, and that one... now the trouble with doing it that way is that it uses the Hexadecimal number... so the Hex number is fine...

but I want everything now to be connected to that style... so when I change it, it all updates. So what I can do is, use the same sort of trick... is figure out what the Hex number is, there you are... select it all... go down to 'Show Selection Colors', let's find the color that I want...

there it is, there, and instead of replacing it... I'm actually just going to say you are now that style of 500... and it kind of disappears from my list, they should all have that style applied... I have to do the same thing with the purple, down here... so I'm looking for E4, I'm going to select them all... I'm going to go down, I'm going to find that purple that has E4, there it is...

and I'm going to switch it out for my 500... and now I'm going to add my last color, or my new color... because that red just doesn't work, it looks like an error message, red... so I'm going to go switch that out for green as my primary... and that red is going to become my accent color. So let's rename this one "Accent"...

and this green here, is the one I'm going to use... so you are going to be a 'Style' called... actually, I'm not going to do it this way... we use that plug-in like we did before just to speed things along... so I'm going to grab you, let's open up the plug-in... nope, it was a widget, Color Level Generator, I double click it to open it...

remember this from way back in the course, pop in my color... I'm going to hit 'Save Styles'... Color Name, this is going to be my "Color Primary"... see how putting them in groups is a whole lot easier... than it is naming every single one of them... because it's really easy to name the color group...

and not have to do it for every single color... go you, you, you, you, and you, oh, I want to keep all those... I want to just select the opposites and go 'Del'... so I've got just a tidier set of colors... and here we go, you, thank you, very much, I'm going delete that now. All right, that's it, changing color is relatively easy, select all, change it...

we also went through and just tidied up some of our styles now as well... all right, that is it, I will see you in the next video.