Expose raw values for color properties

[tachyons-css]

Expose raw values for color properties

[ecstasy2]

I am happy to send a PR if this is something that is of interest.

[fab1an]

Have you tried setting the color via cls?

[ecstasy2]

Yes I tried. It won't work. The component is expecting the color as the `color` attribute.

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[fab1an]

Curious. In the documentation it says that style works (example: https://github.com/oblador/react-native-vector-icons#styling)

[ecstasy2]

@fab1an Thanks for pointing this out. I think I was misusing it somehow. Either way I think having the ability to get the colors and all their variants would be useful. What do you think?

[fab1an]

Which version of rnt are you using? Since 3.0 colors aren't generated or modified anymore, they are just passed through to react-native.

[ecstasy2]

I am using the latest version. I think not modifying the colors make sense given that it is so easy to manually add color variants.

What I was interested in is having access to the colors the same way we have for sizes:

import NativeTachyons, { colors , sizes } from 'react-native-style-tachyons';

Looking at old version of the library, it seems like that was the case before. Any reason it was removed?

[fab1an]

That was because old versions used the color-library to provide a darkened and lightened variant of the base-colors, which could then be set using styles dark-green. The export made it possible to use these variants elsewhere.

I decided to remove the capability, since there is no good default-value for the darkening/lightening. Some of the variants where just unusable (too bright or too dark). If you want dark-green now, you have to provide it yourself via the palette. You can still use the Color library and are able fine-tune the setting of each variant.

I think using the Color library directly is also the way to go if you want to have raw values for the colors. It's just not in the scope of RNT.