Hi everyone, let's create some color variants... from our primary, secondary, and neutral colors... just so we've got some variants of these colors for different situations... throughout our app design... we're going to use this widget here called Color Levels Generator... it's handy, it creates styles, I'll show you how to kind of tidy up your styles...

sometimes this thing produces a little too many... and we'll talk briefly about what these numbers all mean... all right, let's make some color variants. 'Shift I', I'm going to be using a widget called Color Levels Generator... this is one that I like... but you've got to remember, in the future it might not be supported anymore...

it might not be working anymore, Figma might have changed... there might be a better one out there... so this is just a for instance. So I'm using Color Levels Generator... and I'm going to put it over here, out of the way... the way this one works is, I'm going to grab my primary color...

I'm going to paste it in here... I'm going to, you see that, it made all my color variants, look at that... 500 is their main color, that's the one I've typed in... and then there's less, and then there's more, rather than you--  like we did in the Essentials course... we just kind of like lowered the brightness and raised it up... and this one, going to add a color name this is going to be my "Primary Color".

The cool thing about it is that it's used a really good naming convention... this would be really typical in web design... for both font colors and font weights they use these kind of styles... 500 is the middle, and you have like, 1000 would be a really light font... and 900 would be your black font... what we can do is, we can also hit 'Save Styles'...

that's the cool thing about widgets... is these things are actually doing stuff, and you can see over here... all my styles, maybe if you've got this selected they might not be there... so click off in the background or hit 'Esc' on your keyboard... look, primary color, and I've got all my colors there. Now this is probably way too much detail than I need...

what I tend to do, is do this... can you see, I cut out all the middle ones, so, oh, let's go back... so I don't want 50, it's too light, 100 is the lightest I want... I don't want 200, don't want 400, I don't want 600, don't want 800... you can, like there's no rule for it... but I find that is a good enough spread for me...

I'm going to do the three other colors... you can just duplicate these like you duplicate anything... I hold down my 'Option' key on a Mac, 'Alt' key on a PC to drag it out... and I'm going to add my other colors... I'll get the editor to speed this up... and while speeding it up...

I added my styles, unfortunately, and I called them "Primary"... kind of overrode my color styles. So I forgot to change the name. so I'm going to go 'undo', 'undo', 'undo', and just make sure you change the name... because it overrode my original primary numbers in my Style, so 'undo'. All right, this is my secondary color...

'Save Styles', 'Esc'... is my primary, did I save them, there you go. Now we're going to speed up and do the last one, good speeding, Dan... like the other ones, I'm going to get rid of you, you, you, you, and you... so I've just got odd numbering in here, same with this one, my secondary... you, speedy speed.

So these are my color styles... when you're using them, let's say I've got my--  let's actually just grab 'F' tool for the Frame tool... drag it out, and when you're over here... my Fill Colors, I'm going to hit my 'Fill Styles'... and it can get a bit long depending on how many you've got in here. Sometimes it's nice to just type in 500...

500 is that middle style, that's the kind of like full, full color... can you see here, there's my primary color, remember, 500 is the one that I picked... and everything lower is a little bit brighter... everything above it is a bit darker... so with you, I can just type in 500 here, and it will just give me my... you know, just cut it down to a more manageable level.

Last things I want to do, is I want to add my interface color... and I'm not going to do it through this, don't want all the different variations... just want to add it as a style, this one's going to be called "Interface"... you might not have this, and what you'll notice is... if I click off in the background... I've got you but all these guys are in a group...

now, I'm happy with that, and just a reminder, you can reorder these... depending how, you know, which one you've put in... so you can say, all right, secondary first, well, just in case you got it wrong... primary, secondary, and I'm going to have neutral at the bottom. I can't make the interface go down the bottom there... because it's a separate color, grouped at the bottom...

single color's up the top... anything else? One thing is, is this particular one doesn't work very well... if you don't have the hash in front of it... kind of just, if I type in, say, 'FFFFFF'... kind of just doesn't know what to do so it defaults to what it was before...

so make sure the hash goes in... and do you need these? You don't, you can delete them... so just click on the frame, go away, go away, go away. So we've got some of our colors, but we've also got color variants now as well... going to be handy to build out our app...

all right, on to the next video.