Windows 8 Colors
Are you a windows 8 apps developer or thinking to dive into this field? You will surely be needing correct colors in order to blend your apps with windows 8. We have grabbed these colors from Windows 8 RTM so that you can use them in your apps or wherever they are needed.
Note that only the HEX codes for windows 8 colors are provided. If you need RGB, there are palenty of HEX to RGB color converters available online.
Windows 8 Start Screen Colors:
The colors listed below are from tiles found on the Start Screen, such as Mail, Calendar, Store, Video, Music and Messaging. These tiles have a gradient from left to right i.e. dark to light for both sizes of tiles.
| Teal | 008299 | 00A0B1 |
| Blue | 2672EC | 2E8DEF |
| Purple | 8C0095 | A700AE |
| Dark Purple | 5133AB | 643EBF |
| Red | AC193D | BF1E4B |
| Orange | D24726 | DC572E |
| Green | 008A00 | 00A600 |
| Sky Blue | 094AB2 | 0A5BC4 |
Windows 8 Personalized Colors:
Following colors are from Windows 8′s personalized start screen which you can check from Personalize –> Start Screen option on Windows 8. Note that when you select one of the color boxes there are four colors with different sahdes are shown. For the sake for easiness, following figure has been labled for these four colors.
You can find out respective color number from from table given after the image.
| Color 1 | Color 2 | Color 3 | Color 4 |
| 2E1700 | 632F00 | 261300 | 543A24 |
| 4E0000 | B01E00 | 380000 | 61292B |
| 4E0038 | C1004F | 40002E | 662C58 |
| 2D004E | 7200AC | 250040 | 4C2C66 |
| 1F0068 | 4617B4 | 180052 | 423173 |
| 001E4E | 006AC1 | 001940 | 2C4566 |
| 004D60 | 008287 | 004050 | 306772 |
| 004A00 | 199900 | 003E00 | 2D652B |
| 15992A | 00C13F | 128425 | 3A9548 |
| E56C19 | FF981D | C35D15 | C27D4F |
| B81B1B | FF2E12 | 9E1716 | AA4344 |
| B81B6C | FF1D77 | 9E165B | AA4379 |
| 691BB8 | AA40FF | 57169A | 7F6E94 |
| 1B58B8 | 1FAEFF | 16499A | 6E7E94 |
| 569CE3 | 56C5FF | 4294DE | 6BA5E7 |
| 00AAAA | 00D8CC | 008E8E | 439D9A |
| 83BA1F | 91D100 | 7BAD18 | 94BD4A |
| D39D09 | E1B700 | C69408 | CEA539 |
| E064B7 | FF76BC | DE4AAD | E773BD |
